Gold and the Nez Perce
It is often said that the European invasion of the Americas was driven by three things: Gold, Glory, and God. Gold-fever often resulted in genocide […]
Month: April 2011
Ancient America: Rock Art
For thousands of years Indian people left evidence of their presence on the land with rock art: pictographs and petroglyphs. Pictographs are created by painting […]
Roll Call for Netroots Nation 2011 in Minneapolis
Please leave a comment if you are attending or if you’ve applied for a scholarship. Attending: 1. navajo 2. Meteor Blades 3. 4freedom 4. Oke […]
Indians 101: Grey Lock’s War
While King Philip’s War is probably the best-known Indian war of colonial Massachusetts, there were a number of other Indian wars during the colonial period. […]
Books About Indians: The 17th & 18th Centuries
During the 1600’s and 1700’s, the European invasion of North America intensified. With the growing interest in the continent and its aboriginal inhabitants, numerous books […]
Ernesto Yerena’s Newest Addition to the Pine Ridge Billboard Project
This is part three of my continuing coverage of Aaron Huey’s Pine Ridge Billboard Project. Below is Ernesto Yerena’s latest screenprint made for this project […]
Indian Names of the Southern & Central Plains Tribes
The Great Plains is a huge American Indian culture area which is generally sub-divided into the Northern, Central, and Southern Plains. Among the Indian nations […]
Ancient America: 8,000 Years Ago
Eight thousand years ago, the people in the British Isles as well as in most of Europe were still living as hunters and gatherers. They […]
The Importance of Cultural Education
Much of what is known of Native American culture in non-Native communities is what has been romanticized in movies, books, and other forms of media […]
The 19th Century Indian Office
In 1824, the Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, established the Office of Indian Affairs without Congressional authorization. He did this by appointing Thomas L. […]