Indians 101
Suppressing Peyote in 1918
During the first part of the twentieth century, one of the primary concerns of the United States government, as well as state and local governments, […]
Indians 101
The Luiseño Village
Before the European invasion, led by the Spanish in the eighteenth century, Southern California Native Americans lived in small villages of up to 200 inhabitants. […]
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 […]
The Povungnituk Print Shop (Art Diary)
A special exhibit at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, Washington, featured The Inuit Art of Povungnituk. Povungnituk is a village on […]
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 […]
Plateau Indian Baskets (Photo Diary)
The area between the Cascade Mountains and the Rocky Mountains in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia, and Western Montana is known as the Plateau Culture […]