The Channel Islands in the Terminal Pleistocene
There was a time in archaeology some fifty to sixty years ago, when the basic hypothesis regarding the peopling of the Americas suggested that towards […]
Month: October 2014
World War II Impacts Indian Reservations
In 1942, the United States was gearing up to fight in World War II and the military efforts on the homefront had an impact on […]
Tribes Ask That Oil and Gas Leases be Cancelled
On Friday, Blackfeet tribal leaders in Montana sent letters to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asking that all federal oil and […]
Aztec Social Organization
When the Spanish invaded Mexico, they found that one of the dominant empires was that of the Aztecs. While many great civilizations and empires had […]
Tobacco and the Indian Nations of the Great Lakes
The western portion of the Northeastern Woodlands of the U.S., an area designated as the Great Lakes-Riverine area by some anthropologists, was inhabited by Algonquian-speaking […]
The Cheyenne Migrations
In 1851, the United States government met in treaty council with 8,000 to 12,000 Indians from several Plains tribes at Fort Laramie in present-day Wyoming. […]
Some Apache Ceremonies
While the movies and popular books (including some textbooks) speak of the Apaches as if they were a single American Indian nation, there are many […]