Indians 101
The Athabaskan Language Family
The Athabaskan (also spelled Athapaskan and Athabascan) language family is found in the western American Indian culture areas. Linguists feel that the Athabaskan language family […]
Indians 101
Smoke Signals and Mirrors
Both spoken language and sign language are capable of communicating a great deal of information, but they have a limited physical range. American Indian hunting […]
Apache Spirituality
Bands or tribes known collectively as the Apache ranged widely throughout the (American) Southwest at the time of the first Spanish exploration and invasion. The […]
Indians 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 […]
Southeastern Indian Baskets (Photo Diary)
The Southeastern Woodlands is an area which is bounded by the Ozark-Ouachita Highlands of Arkansas and Missouri and the dry plains of eastern Texas on […]
Choctaw Government
The Choctaw, at the time of European contact, were a loosely organized confederacy composed of three distinctly different divisions: Okla Falaya (Long People), Okla Tannap […]
Southwestern Baskets in the Maryhill Museum (Photo Diary)
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, […]
Plains Indian Sign Language
In 1527, The Spanish soldier Pánfilio de Narváez, with a reputation for brutality and a strong desire to find gold and wealth, began his ill-fated […]
Ilchee, A Powerful Chinook Woman
The river known to the Chinook Indians as Hyas Cooley Chuck collides with the Pacific Ocean to create the worst wave conditions on the planet. […]
A Very Short Overview of the Caddo Indians
The traditional homelands of the Caddo stretched from the Red River Valley in Louisiana to the Brazos River Valley in Texas. The Caddo were agricultural […]