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( – promoted by navajo) One of the common sayings in Indian country is that when our ancestors first gave tobacco to the European invaders, they knew it was going to kill them, they just didn’t think it would take this long. The use of tobacco today, for smoking as well as other uses, is … Continued

I am almost in my 47th year. I was raised catholic until i left home at 14. My father was french and Mi’kmaq. My mother is a mix of Scot English German and Cherokee. I have been very busy trying to build this family tree to leave my children a record of who they descend … Continued

I am Jason and am white american with European ancestory..  I have for a long time had respect for the Native people of this land…any questions from you would be welcome, I am interested in some kind of discussion. thanks jason

( – promoted by navajo) Cross posted from Daily Kos and Blue Jersey Diary updated by navajo to include video In lower Manhattan, on what will now be known as Native American Heritage Day, November 27, 2009, in front of the Museum of the American Indian, a historical event centuries in the making occurred as … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) The Cree Indian folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie has often complained that too many people saw her as Pocahontas with a guitar. She’s anything but. Her career, which began in the early 1960s at beatnik coffeehouses in Canada and the United States, has been marked by political controversy, drug addiction and numerous … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) Chief Black Kettle: I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies. A Cheyenne cemetery is in the same direction as where my mother … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) Native American Heritage Day Friday, the day after Thanksgiving Most people aren’t aware of this, but last June, President Obama signed into law a joint resolution of the House and Senate, sponsored by Rep. Baca of California and Sen. Inouye of Hawaii, naming the Friday after Thanksgiving Native American Heritage … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) and out of that heightened violence came the massacre for which Thanksgiving is named. Thanksgiving Day Celebrates A Massacre William B. Newell, a Penobscot Indian and former chairman of the Anthropology department at the University of Connecticut, says that the first official Thanksgiving Day celebrated the massacre of 700 Indian … Continued

I spent last weekend visiting my family on the Navajo reservation in Northern Arizona to attend their 3rd annual Veteran’s Day Appreciation Event at Inscription House where my mother was born. My family honors the local veterans and families of fallen soldiers with a flag ceremony, luncheon and gift baskets. The whole family gathered early … Continued