Everything Amerindian
See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations The complete genome has recently been sequenced from 4 year old Russian boy who died 24,000 years ago near Lake Baikal in a location called Mal’ta, the area in Asia believed to be the origin of the… See on nativeheritageproject.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 Note: The following is based completely on statements and works by Native Americans. Most of it is cut and pasted from the words of Russell Means, Jack D. Forbes, Devon A. Mihesuah, James Collins a… See on abagond.wordpress.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Kahsatstenhsera gah-sad-sdanh-se-ra is a Kanienkeha:ka (Mohawk) word that means Strength in Unity. This short documentary details contemporary Indigenous resistance to tar sands pipeline expansion, in particular the Line 9 and Energy East pipelines, which threaten the health of our territories in the northeast of Turtle Island. It includes the voices and perspectives of Dene,
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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 “Are there still Indians here in Palm Springs?” Yes. “So, where are all the tipis?” According to the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum’s Executive Director, Dr. Michael Hammond, inquiries about the Palm Springs area Indians, who are mostly of historical Cahuilla origins, and how to find tipis in Palm Springs, are the two most frequently asked
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Visit Agua Caliente Cultural Museum and discover native Palm Springs. Explore the history and culture of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians — earliest inhabitants of this region of Southern California. See on www.youtube.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations In the Carlisle Indian School records, we find someone listed as Sleep Long Time, a Chief, listed among the students. I was interested to see what I could find about this man. The picture below wa… See on nativeheritageproject.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Chief American Horse (the younger) is one of the Indian Chiefs listed as either a visitor or a student at the Carlisle School. Chief American Horse was Oglala Lakota, born in 1840 in the Black Hi… 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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