Tobacco and the Ho-Chunk

November 27, 2019 admin 0

Among the tribes of the western portion of the Northeastern Woodlands, tobacco was an important ceremonial and trade plant. Tobacco smoking is a symbolic way […]

Plateau Indian Spirituality

November 26, 2019 admin 0

The Plateau Culture Area is the area between the Cascade Mountains and the Rocky Mountains in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia, and Western Montana. From […]

Kennekuk

Kennekuk, Kickapoo Leader and Prophet

November 26, 2019 admin 0

When a society is undergoing rapid change—economic and technological change, religious change, language change, social change—and particularly when that change is being imposed on them […]

Skolaskin

Skolaskin, A Sanpoil Prophet

November 25, 2019 admin 0

The Columbia Plateau refers to the area between the Cascade Mountains and the Rocky Mountains in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia, and Western Montana. The […]

American Indian Religions

Suppressing Peyote in 1918

November 24, 2019 admin 0

During the first part of the twentieth century, one of the primary concerns of the United States government, as well as state and local governments, […]

The Indian Shaker Church

November 23, 2019 admin 0

In 1881, the Squaxin of the Puget Sound area in Washington would have described John Slocum has having a bit of an inclination toward alcohol […]