Indians 101 is a series exploring American Indian histories, cultures, and current concerns
Most Navajo ceremonies are focused on health: on healing someone who is ill or on maintaining health. Navajo ceremonies, often referred to as “sings” or […]
Following World War II, the United States decided that it wanted to sever its relationships with American Indian tribes. In order to do this, it […]
While Europeans tended to build the places they considered to be sacred-churches, statues, memorials-for American Indian people sacred places were often not places constructed by […]
During the nineteenth century, academics, politicians, teachers, historians, and the general public knew that Americans Indians were a vanishing race, destined to disappear before the […]
While the English history of the colonization of Massachusetts often characterizes the Indians as nomadic hunters with no claim to the land, it is interesting […]
In 1865, some drunken American squatters murdered Pai headman Anasa. In retaliation, Pai raiders attacked several wagon trains, ran off livestock, and shut down the […]
In the United States the concept of insanity has often been associated with notions of racial purity and the racial superiority of Europeans. In 1898, […]
The Hopi had lived in their mesa-top villages in what is now northern Arizona for many centuries before the United States acquired the right to […]
The media has never been fair and balanced when it comes to serving Indian people and reporting on events which impact Indian lives. Many Indian […]
The nineteenth-century wild west shows did a great deal to firmly entrench the stereotype of the American Indian in American culture. This stereotype, loosely based […]