The Eastern Woodlands Culture Area
In providing a broad overview of the hundreds of distinct American Indian cultures found in North America, it is common for museums, historians, archaeologists, and […]
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DAPL Militarized Officers Committed Cultural Genocide
Militarized officers forcing Water Protectors out of their Inipi Ceremony (sweat lodge) and confiscating “Sacred and cultural items, such as eagle-feather staffs and prayer drums” […]
Hopi Woman Refused Health Care in Santa Fe whose “Medicaid plan won’t pay for enough”
https://www.google.com/search?q=native+americans+health+care&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPj-PIjePUAhUizIMKHUrsDrUQ_AUICygC&biw=1366&bih=662#imgrc=atxzgZS-ayjnyM: When I explain tribal sovereignty to people and how it actually is applied, I say “when it’s good for the government to respect tribal […]
The Salish Language Family
The Salish language family is found on the Northwest Coast and in the Columbia Plateau. Salish is generally felt to have great antiquity in the […]
Tribes and Reservations in 1917
During the nineteenth century, the United States had attempted to settle all Indians on well-defined reservations on lands deemed unsuitable for non-Indian development. Here Indians […]
John Hoeven, New Senate Indian Affairs Chair, Supports Dakota Access Pipeline, Targeted #NoDAPL
Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND), who called overwhelmingly peaceful #NoDAPL protesters “violent,” has been named the new chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. The […]
The French and the Indians 300 Years Ago, 1719
In 1719, the French were continuing their exploration of North America. Historian William Eccles, in his chapter in North American Exploration. Volume 2: A Continent […]
Reforming Indian Policies 150 Years Ago, 1869
When Ulysses S. Grant became President of the United States in 1869, the Indian Office (also known as the Indian Service, and the Indian Bureau) […]
Indian Boarding Schools: Cultural Assimilation and Destruction
What happened inside of the walls of the Indian Boarding School that was to the right here? Let’s look to history for some feasible answers. […]
Tribes and Reservations a Century Ago (1918)
Indians, according to the non-Indian social philosophers, bureaucrats, and politicians of the nineteenth century, were going to simply disappear by the end of the century […]