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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations As Told By LaDonna Brown To find their homeland, the Chickasaws and Choctaws migrated across the continent. They prayed each night for direction. A force manifested in the Leaning Pole indicated which path to follow. Two brothers led the procession and the two tribes didn’t part until they reached the Mississippi River. See
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Someone was cleaning out their files and offered a pension application to anyone interested. Since it related to the “Cherokee Disturbance” and since no one else stepped up, I asked for the applic… See on nativeheritageproject.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations The park ranger says “There’s a 50% chance that they’re right” regarding their claim to the land. 50% chance huh? according to who? See on www.youtube.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Location: Near the centre of North America, in the Black Hills of the American state of South Dakota. The Black Hills are sacred to the Sioux. The American government in the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie said the Sioux would have the mountains forever. Forever lasted eight years: whites discovered gold and the government
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations 123 years ago, on December 28,1890, Chief Spotted Elk was deathly sick with pneumonia.. His band of Lakota set off in the snow from Cheyenne River to seek shelter with Red Cloud at Pine Ridge rese… See on nativeheritageproject.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations It was 1902. The government was unhappy that Indians were acting like, well, Indians, with their own customs and ways of life. The government wanted to make the Indians white, or what they called “civilized,” so they would stop causing trouble with all of those “unacceptable ways.” So on January 11, 1902, the Department of the
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations The Taínos (tah-EE-noes), commonly called the Arawak Indians, were the main people who lived in the Caribbean when Columbus arrived in 1492. They are the ones he called “Indians”, thinking he was in Asia See on abagond.wordpress.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “These examples only scratch the surface of what was going on in Pre-Columbian cities. I think it’s a fascinating topic because there are so many sites in good condition that can be visited. It’s a great way to study how people and crowds relate to public spaces and monumental architecture. ” See on www.urbanindy.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Sioux is not even a word?” It’s a partial word, a slang word; Sioux comes from two words.”Nadowessi” comes from the Chippewa’s and “Oux” comes from the French. The two words were put together is “Nadowessioux.” Sioux has no meaning in either the Chippewa or French language. “Nadowessi” is the main word; “Oux” is
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