American Indians
The Siletz Reservation, 1900-1925
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the policies of the federal government regarding American Indians were based on the philosophy that Indians, like other […]
American Indians
Some Inuit Art (Photo Diary)
The Inuit (sometimes called Eskimo) are one of the aboriginal peoples of the Arctic. A special exhibit at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture […]
Some Northern Northwest Coast Baskets (Photo Diary)
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 […]
Puget Sound and Twana Baskets (Photo Diary)
The Southern Northwest Coast culture area spreads south along the Pacific coast of Washington and Oregon. This is an area which includes the Coast Salish, […]
Ktunaxa Beadwork (Photo Diary)
The traditional territories of the Ktunaxa people—also known as the Kootenai—was in the Rocky Mountains of Montana and British Columbia. Their hunting and gathering economy […]
A Very Short Overview of the O’odham Indians
The Sonoran Desert which stretches across part of the present-day American state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora is an area of very […]
A Tohono O’odham Village
The Sonoran Desert which stretches across part of the present-day American state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora is an area of very […]
The Algonquian Language Family
In North America, linguists generally recognize 58 language families and isolates. Understanding language families is one of the keys to understanding the historical relationships between […]
North Plains Indian Clothing (Photo Diary)
The Northern Plains include what is now North and South Dakota, Eastern Montana, northeastern Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The basic […]
Reservations and Tribes a Century Ago, 1919
Indians, according to the non-Indian social philosophers, bureaucrats, and politicians of the nineteenth century, were going to simply disappear by the end of the century […]