Indians 101
Cahuilla Pottery (Photo Diary)
The Cahuilla homeland in California was bounded on the north by the San Bernardino Mountains; on the south by the northern Borrego Desert; on the […]
Indians 101
Plateau Indian Beadwork in the Maryhill Museum (Photo Diary)
The Maryhill Museum located near Goldendale, Washington, has a display of Plateau beadwork. The Plateau Culture Area is the area between the Cascade Mountains and […]
A collection of Plateau Indian artifacts (photo diary)
The East Benton County Museum in Kennewick, Washington, has a number of American Indian artifacts from the Plateau culture area on display. The East Benton […]
Christians and Indians in 1818
During the nineteenth century, the policy of the United States government was to encourage, and sometimes require, the conversion of American Indians to Christianity. Christianity […]
Arctic Baskets (Photo Diary)
The Artic Culture Area includes the Aleutian Islands, most of the Alaska Coast, the Canadian Artic, and parts of Greenland. It is an area which […]
The Southwest Culture Area
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 […]
Southern California First Peoples
Long before the first Spaniards arrived in Southern California, the area was occupied by six distinct Native American tribes: Chumash, Tongva, Serrano, Cahuilla, Luiseño, and […]
Cahuilla Life (Photo Diary)
One of the displays in The Cahuilla Continuum exhibit in the Riverside Metropolitan Museums shows some of the material culture associated with traditional Cahuilla daily […]
American Indians Beliefs about Ghosts
The idea that the soul leaves the physical body at death and journeys to the land of dead is found in Native American cultures throughout […]
American Indians 350 Years Ago, 1669
In 1669, the impact of the European invasion was being felt by Indian nations throughout North America. The European explorers were attempting to discover what […]