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Congress is said to be looking at a bill to make the North American Bison the official national mammal of the United States. Four members of the Senate have sponsored the advancement of the bill al…
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Pres Obama visiting Indian Country TODAY!3rd president in history to visit Natives. #PrezRezVisit #whynotnews pic.twitter.com/2PaOKgJMRQ — Kate Herrera Jenkins (@Sacajamama) June 13, 2014
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Ely Samuel Parker (1828 – August 31, 1895), (born Hasanoanda, later known as Donehogawa) was a Seneca attorney, engineer, and tribal diplomat. He was commissioned a lieutenant colonel during the American Civil War, when he served as adjutant to General Ulysses S. Grant. He wrote the final draft of the Confederate surrender terms
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Between 1775 and 1782 a smallpox epidemic swept through North America, shaping the course of the American Revolution and decimating native communities across the continent. A research and teaching tool, Pox Americana allows users to watch the epidemic unfold and read the accounts of those who witnessed (and survived) its devastating effects. The seed data
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations When Hernando de Soto carved his way through the Southeast in the 1540s, there were some eight million Native Americans living in North America. By 1900, the population had fallen by more than 95%. For every twenty American Indians alive in 1500, there was only a single survivor four hundred years later. In
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will pay his first visit as president to Indian Country when he travels to a Native American reservation in North Dakota next week. In an opinion piece published Thursday by an online tribal newspaper, Obama announced that he and first lady Michelle Obama plan to visit Standing Rock
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Nanye-hi, or Nancy Ward was apart of the Cherokee Nation and lived in the area now known as Eastern Tennessee. Having been born in 1738, Nanye-hi grew up in the time of European colonialism and war… See on ndnimpact.wordpress.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations (CNN) — Chester Nez, the last of the original Navajo code talkers credited with creating an unbreakable code used during World War II, diedWednesday at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Navajo Nation President said. He was 93. Nez was one of the 29 Navajos recruited by the U.S. Marine Corps to develop the code that
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Every Indian head brought to Shasta City was worth five dollars. And California’s state treasury reimbursed many of the local governments for their expenses. There were some 150,000 Indians in California before the Forty-niners came. By 1870, there would be fewer than 30,000. It was the worst slaughter of Indian peoples in United States
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “I’m often asked about DNA projects at Family Tree DNA that are for or include Native American or aboriginal DNA results. Please note that different project administrators have different criteria for admission to a project. Some require definitive proof of descent, some require no documentation at all. This is entirely left to the discretion of the project administrators.
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