( – promoted by navajo) ================================================ ================================================ By Mark Trahant By any objective measure Barack Obama has been the most engaged and effective president on American Indian issues since at least since Richard Nixon. You could even make the case that Obama is better than Nixon because there has been so much successful legislation and … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) It is not uncommon for accounts of American history to begin in the fifteenth century with the Spanish voyages of exploration. What the Europeans found was not a wilderness, but a land which had been settled by and developed for American Indians. By two thousand years ago there were a … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) The Walker War was a conflict between the Mormon settlers in Utah and Utah’s aboriginal peoples, the Ute. The leader of the Utes was Wakara, called Walker by the Mormons, and the conflict became known as the Walker War. Some Background: In 1850, Ute leader Wakara invited Brigham Young … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) Many of you are familiar with Wellstone Action, an incredibly effective organization that was founded following the deaths of Senator Paul and Sheila Wellstone. One of it’s primary missions is to train activists, candidates, and campaign operatives across the country, and to strengthen progressive infrastructure and organizations in the process. … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) American Indians were involved in trade for thousands of years prior to the arrival of the European and American fur traders. Traditional Indian trade was about relationships as much as it was about the material which was traded. In order to trade, a person needed to have trading partners, primarily … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) The Bighorn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming is the best known of the many medicine wheels, and many people refer to it as “the” medicine wheel. The Bighorn Medicine Wheel, located on a mountain top at an elevation of 9,642 feet, was originally constructed about 1500 years ago. The wheel is … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) My Mother: My mother was born on the Ocean Man Reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada and came to the United States as a child. According to her brother she was smuggled into the country in the back of a hay wagon and lived here for most of her life as an … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) In 1847, the Mormons entered what is now Utah and began to build their Kingdom of God on Earth. There are some who feel that that this was to be a kingdom that did not include the American Indian residents of Utah. Unlike American settlers in other parts of the … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) The Hopi have lived in a number of autonomous farming villages in northern Arizona for thousands of years. The designation “Hopi” is a contraction of Hopi-tuh which means “peaceful ones.” While each Hopi village has been a self-governing entity, the United States government has always insisted on dealing with the … Continued
Allen Dale June, one of the 29 original Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, has died. He was 91. [snip] June, who attained the rank of sergeant, received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2001 along with other members of the original Code Talkers. … Continued
