This continues up to present day: The federal coronavirus relief bill, or CARES Act, allocated $8 billion to Native American tribes, but the payment has faced delays. Even as funds are now trickling out, money needed to meet urgent needs, such as food and water, as well as funds for cr...
For centuries, a person's percentage of Native American blood had nothing to do with determining who was a tribal member. And for some tribes, it still doesn't. Membership was based on kinship and encompassed biological relatives, those who married into the tribe and even people...
Native American tribes, such as the Navaho and the Apache, have their own puberty rites of passage for girls. The separation time for the girl experiencing her first period was as much to honor the transition to adulthood as it was to protect the village from the calamities superstitiously bl...
In the first, the nation of Panem pits one girl and one boy from 12 tribes to fight to the death each year in the games. There can be only one survivor. The story is written from the perspective of a 16-year-old girl, who takes her sister’s place... See full article at The ...
Congress laid the framework for a nationwide boarding school system for Native Americans in 1819 under the 5th U.S. President, James Monroe, with legislation known as the Indian Civilization Act. It was purportedly aimed at stopping the “final extinction of the Indian tribes” and “introducing...
Analysis: Native American tribes learning how to get phone service on their reservationsBOB EDWARDS
we’re going to make it kid-friendly. The roots of this race are tied back to the horse-stealing campaigns that tribes conducted on white settlers and each other. Horses were held in high regard by Native people because of how powerful they are. Therefore, the more horses you owned, the...
“one who,” and the plural suffix -meti). It was used by the surrounding Miwok tribes. The Yosemite people were referred to as killers by these surrounding tribes, who feared them. The Yosemite tribe, led by Chief Tenaya, were composed of renegades from multiple tribes, including Mono Pai...
casino business since 1931 happened in the late 1980s, when Native American tribes decided to get a piece of the action. We'll discuss Native American casinos a little bit later. Casino Games A blackjack game Public Domain A wide variety of games can be found at casinos, and some ...
Public Assistance, which targets public entities, funds the repair, restoration, reconstruction, or replacement of a public facility damaged or destroyed by a disaster. Eligible entities include state and local governments and other political entities, such as Native American tribes and Alaska Native Vi...