Sealth was born about 1786. His father, Schweabe, was Suquamish and his mother, Scholitza, was Duwamish. As a young boy in 1792, he witnessed the arrival of the first Europeans to his area: British Captain George Vancouver entered Puget Sound and traded with the Suquamish. In his short biography of Seattle in the Encyclopedia of … Continued
https://www.google.com/search?q=native+american+stereotypes+in+film&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0gtmz-cnUAhVW5GMKHRiyBW8Q_AUIBygC&biw=1366&bih=662&dpr=1#imgrc=orsbl95_XLI64M: The University of Wyoming is challenged by helping “audiences understand the context and/or story for the play without taking undue or illegal liberties with the script.” Published June 18, 2017 The 1960 musical, which is about two neighboring fathers who trick their children into falling in love by pretending to feud, contains a scene … Continued
The “Early Days” statue being removed on September 14, 2018 ~Neeta Lind is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and writes about Native issues. We won. After decades of debate, a deeply painful reminder to all Native peoples and particularly the many tribes in California is now gone. Early this morning before sunrise a … Continued
The Southwest Culture Area is a culturally diverse area. Geographically it covers all of Arizona and New Mexico and includes parts of Colorado, Nevada, Utah, and Texas as well as parts of the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua. Much of this area is semi-arid; part of it is true desert (southern Arizona); and part … Continued
In major museums, only a small fraction of the artifacts held by the museum are on display and interpreted for the public. Most of the museum’s artifacts are in vaults where they are available only to researchers. The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History maintains a Visible Vault in which visitors can view hundreds … Continued
One of the displays in the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, California, is entitled Sacred Earth and subtitled Understanding our past and honoring cultures that thrive today. The nature of California and Southwestern Indian culture began to change with the European invasion four centuries ago. One of the displays in the Museum looks at … Continued
Water Protectors barred from entering the National Museum of the American Indian for wearing a Stand with Standing Rock patch that said “Water is Life, Mni Wiconi.” In a stunning violation of free speech, Water Protectors attending the four-day Native Nations Rise event in D.C. were barred March 11, 2017 from wearing their Mni Wiconi, … Continued
Daily Kos Director of Community Neeta Lind stands with Dale Ramsey and Duane Red Water, volunteer canvassers of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation, which straddles the border of North Dakota and South Dakota. Less than a month before the midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Native American Rights Fund’s (NARF) emergency application to … Continued
For thousands of years the Cahuilla lived in what would become Southern California. It is not known when the Cahuilla had their first contact with the European explorers/invaders. In 1540, the Spanish explorers Hernando de Alarcón and Melchor Díaz reached the area near present-day Yuma, Arizona. The Spanish had sailed up the Gulf of California … Continued
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 ethnologists to use a culture area model. This model is based on the observation that different groups of people living in the same geographic area often share many cultural features. … Continued
