Everything Amerindian
See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “Members of the Metlakatla First Nation Community near Prince Rupert, BC who collaborated with an international team of scientists in a genetic study of aboriginal people, including excavated remains that link them to their 5,500 year old Grandmother.” See on nativeheritageproject.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Images of art and artifacts produced by ancient civilizations in the Americas up to the period of the Spanish conquest. Photos freely available for noncommercial use with attribution – “Photo by Mary Harrsch”. See on www.flickr.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Dartmouth is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Native American Studies (NAS) program during the 2012-13 academic year. When Dartmouth was founded on December 13, 1769, its charter created a college “for the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land … and also of English Youth and any others.”
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations These are photos of Modern American Indians. Some in their regalia but most are just as they are day to day. Today’s American Indian doesn’t live in a teepee or ride a horse to work, but it does occasionally happen. American Indians have the same hopes, dreams and hardships as the rest of America.
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Woman in red regalia by Sings in the Timber http://www.singsinthetimber.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “This territory is covered with ancient ruins which prove conclusively it was once densely populated by a people far in advance, in point of civilization, to most of the Indian tribes. There is no written record of them, and it is only a matter of conjecture who and what they were. Occasionally a deserted
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator from Kansas later chosen as Senate Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues, and the 31st Vice President of the United States (1929–1933). He was the first person with significant acknowledged Native American ancestry and the
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