Native American Netroots
The Muskogean Language Family
Muskogean was the most important language family of the Native American Southeastern Culture Area. In her introduction to Florida Place Names of Indian Origin and […]
Native American Netroots
Carved Stone Figures in the Plateau (Photo Diary)
The Maryhill Museum located near Goldendale, Washington, has a display of Plateau stone artifacts. The Plateau Culture Area is the area between the Cascade Mountains […]
The Native American Heritage of Los Angeles
When the Spanish explorer Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo arrived in what was to become Los Angeles in 1542, his ship anchored off Santa Catalina Island where […]
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Election Day at Standing Rock—Voter Suppression Backfired!
When on October 9th the US Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to a 2103 North Dakota voter ID law disenfranchising thousands of voters […]
Allotment and the Siletz Reservation
One of the characteristics of American culture is an obsession with private property. The idea of holding land in common, as was the practice of […]
Chief Sealth (Seattle), Suquamish/Duwamish Leader
Sealth was born about 1786. His father, Schweabe, was Suquamish and his mother, Scholitza, was Duwamish. As a young boy in 1792, he witnessed the […]
Southwestern Jewelry and Beadwork (Photo Diary)
The Southwest Culture Area is a culturally diverse area. Geographically it covers all of Arizona and New Mexico and includes parts of Colorado, Nevada, Utah, […]
Altered Lands in California (Photo Diary)
One of the displays in the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, California, is entitled Sacred Earth and subtitled Understanding our past and honoring cultures […]
Water Protectors barred from entering the National Museum of the American Indian
Water Protectors barred from entering the National Museum of the American Indian for wearing a Stand with Standing Rock patch that said “Water is Life, […]
Between Two Worlds in California (Photo Diary)
For thousands of years the Cahuilla lived in what would become Southern California. It is not known when the Cahuilla had their first contact with […]