Centuries of Genocide: Modoc Indians, Part III
( – promoted by navajo) photo credit: Aaron Huey The Battle of Lost River In Part II, I had concluded with the Third Generation’s great […]
Month: November 2011
Centuries of Genocide: Modoc Indians, Part II
( – promoted by navajo) photo credit: Aaron Huey Ethnography Prior to contact, the Modoc people inhabited an area approximately 5,000 square miles in southern […]
Centuries of Genocide: Modoc Indians, Part I
( – promoted by navajo) photo credit: Aaron Huey Prior to contact, the Modoc people inhabited an area approximately 5,000 square miles in southern Oregon […]
“It’s still legal in Oklahoma to kill an Indian”
Foster Child’s Autopsy Results Released(You Tube) Naomi Whitecrow, a 2-year-old member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes “died of blunt-force injury to the head, abdomen […]
Salish Kootenai College
The Navajo Community College was established in Tsaile, Arizona in 1969. This college was an outgrowth of the idea of self-determination in which the tribes […]
The Navajo, Sheep, and the Federal Government
During the 1930s, the conservation policies of the federal government collided with Navajo culture. What the Navajo perceived as the callous disregard of the government […]
Choctaw Education After Removal
By 1840, some 40,000 Indians from the Five Civilized Tribes-Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole-had been resettled in what is now Oklahoma as a part […]
Thanksgiving: National Day Of Mourning
I mourn the loss of my specific tribal heritage due to my biological family being assimilated into Christianity, the shame that religion put into them, […]
Welcome to the Rez (Photo Diary)
“Rez” is a slang term for “reservation.” When the media focuses its attention on a reservation, there is a tendency to shore pictures of abject, […]
Origins Of The Native American Flute
The clear origins of the Native American Flute date back several thousand millennia to flutes made of bone, to petroglyphs, and oral history. Unclear “origins” […]