40 Years of Native American Studies at Dartmouth

40 Years of Native American Studies at Dartmouth

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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Arizona’s Ancient Ruins

Arizona's Ancient Ruins

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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The Cobell Case and Indian Reservation Ownership

See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “The Cobell Case, known my many different names, was a class action suit filed by Native American representatives against two departments of the United States government. …” … “If you thought that the Indians “owned” the reservations outright, they didn’t. Even in earlier circumstances, in the early 1700s in North Carolina, the Tuscarora Indians

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Obama: ‘Unless you’re a Native American, you came from …

See on Scoop.it – First Nation Unless you are one of the first Americans, unless you are a Native American, you came from someplace else. That’s why we’ve always defined ourselves as a nation of immigrants. And we’ve always been better off for it. See on libertyunyielding.com

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Wolves and Native American Tribes Connected in Tradition and Spirit

See on Scoop.it – First Nation An elder from the White Earth Tribe of Minnesota shared with Good Wolf that his tribe feels connected and akin to the wolf—in fact it has always been deeply believed that what happens to the wolf, happens to his tribe. He shared that he and his… See on www.causes.com

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