Blog About Native Americans

The California culture area has the widest variety of native languages, ecological settings, and house types of any North American culture area. The shaded area … Continued

Mother Jones has a piece out about how Native Americans were instrumental in helping elect U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D. ND) in 2012 and it … Continued

There are more than 6,000 languages in the world and only about 100 of these developed their own writing system. For most of these writing … 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 … Continued

https://www.google.com/search?q=indian+boarding+schools&biw=1366&bih=613&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjh_obWrIDSAhXFsFQKHYIwAQ0Q_AUIBygC#imgrc=O9WI0EJRDiX-cM: 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 … Continued

In Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana during the nineteenth century, American settlers formed militia groups for the purpose of killing Indians. While supposedly formed for … Continued

In the late 1200’s through the early 1400’s groups of hunting and gathering Athabascans began arriving in the Southwest from the far north in Canada. … Continued

The Northwest Coast culture area stretches along the Pacific coast between the Cascade Mountains and the ocean. It extends north of California to Alaska. This … Continued

In looking at American Indian art, there is a different between tribal art and ethnic art. In his book Native Arts of North America, Christian … Continued

The Oregon rest stops along the highway that follows the old Oregon Trail have kiosks displaying the history of the trail. The map shown above … Continued