History
Salish Kootenai College
The Navajo Community College was established in Tsaile, Arizona in 1969. This college was an outgrowth of the idea of self-determination in which the tribes […]
History
The Navajo, Sheep, and the Federal Government
During the 1930s, the conservation policies of the federal government collided with Navajo culture. What the Navajo perceived as the callous disregard of the government […]
Choctaw Education After Removal
By 1840, some 40,000 Indians from the Five Civilized Tribes-Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole-had been resettled in what is now Oklahoma as a part […]
Thanksgiving: National Day Of Mourning
I mourn the loss of my specific tribal heritage due to my biological family being assimilated into Christianity, the shame that religion put into them, […]
Origins Of The Native American Flute
The clear origins of the Native American Flute date back several thousand millennia to flutes made of bone, to petroglyphs, and oral history. Unclear “origins” […]
The Cherokee and the United States, the First Decade
The United States came into existence in its current governmental form with the adoption of the Constitution in 1787. Under the Constitution, the federal government, […]
The Discovery Doctrine
European nations assumed that they had a right to govern the Indian nations they encountered. This right stemmed from the legal and religious Doctrine of […]
Writing Indian History in the Early 20th Century
During the nineteenth century non-Indian scholars, intellectuals, government officials, and others were convinced that American Indians were a dying race and that by the twentieth […]
Neolin: the Delaware Prophet
In 1762 the Delaware (Lenni Lenape) prophet Neolin, who was living in Ohio, had a vision in which he undertook a journey to meet the […]
Art Museums Discover Indian Art
During the nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth century, American Indian objects that would today be considered works of art were relegated to […]