Native American Netroots
American Indians 350 Years Ago, 1669
In 1669, the impact of the European invasion was being felt by Indian nations throughout North America. The European explorers were attempting to discover what […]
Native American Netroots
Arctic Clothing and Adornment (Photo Diary)
The Artic Culture Area includes the Aleutian Islands, most of the Alaska Coast, the Canadian Artic, and parts of Greenland. It is an area which […]
Pat Courtney Gold’s Baskets (Photo Diary)
Basketry is probably the oldest art form, although the archaeological record is devoid of the earliest basketry. In his 1904 book American Indian Basketry, Otis […]
The Cherokee in 1817
When the Europeans began their invasion of the Americas, the Cherokee were an agricultural people whose villages could be found throughout the American Southeast. By […]
American Indians in 1717
The fur trade was an important part of the economic history of North America and incorporated American Indian economies into a larger world economy. Furs […]
Federal Indian Policy in 1817
In 1817, James Monroe became the new President of the United States. In his book The Removal of the Choctaw Indians, Arthur DeRosier writes: “America […]
A Very Short Overview of the Ottawa Indians
At the time of first contact with Europeans, the Ottawa (Odawa in Canada) were living on Manitoulin Island. The Ottawa homeland for at least three […]
Yup’ik Masks (Photo Diary)
For the Central Alaska Yup’ik Eskimo, spirituality was focused largely on the need to secure food for hunting. As with other animistic hunting peoples, animals […]
Supernatural Entities among the Eastern Algonquian Tribes
The Northeastern Atlantic Coast of the U.S. was dominated by Algonquian-speaking nations who practiced agriculture supplemented by hunting, fishing, and gathering. In general, tribes tended […]
Some Northwest Coast Artifacts (Photo Diary)
The Northwest Coast culture area stretches along the Pacific coast between the Cascade Mountains and the ocean. It extends north of California to Alaska. This […]