In November 1969, a coalition of veteran activists and students attending the new Native American studies programs at San Francisco State University and Berkeley took over the unused federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Like other spectacular protests, the occupation of Alcatraz ...
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wanted to create a cultural center for Indians and Alaska Natives,” says Mike Tulee, CEO of United Indians. “A 20-acre site was eventually secured for this purpose, today home to Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, home to the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation.” ...
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Joseph village, where he found nearly all of both tribes nominally Christian, but, from long absence of a missionary, “fallen into great disorders”. Soon afterwards this matter was remedied and in 1750 the mission was in flourishing condition. At the same time Fr. Pierre du Jaunay was ...
In the same way the Apache and Navaho of the Mexican border are known to have emigrated from the frozen shores of the Yukon and Mackenzie. As in Europe and Asia, the general movement was from north to south, but the Algonkian (Ojibwa, etc.) and Siouan (Sioux, etc.) tribes moved ...
They were forced to abandon their old way of life. Changes of life on the reservations Many of their tribes were resettled on reservations in the west. The land belonged to the United States Government but was reserved tax-free for the Indians. The federal government provided the tribes with...
1.a member of a Plains Indian people living between the Arkansas and Red rivers in the mid-19th century: later confined to a reservation in the Indian Territory. 2.the language of the Kiowa, akin to the Tanoan languages. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dict...
In her journey, Pocahontas and her spiritual companion Hopi Ho, get the chance to become acquainted with the different ways of living of the different American Indian tribes that they visit. Seasons 1See all Director Kim Jun Ok Writers
Battle of the Monongahela, (July 9, 1755), in the last French and Indian War, thorough defeat of General Edward Braddock’s British army by a smaller force of French and Indians of several tribes led by Captain Daniel de Beaujeu and, after his death, by Captain Jean Dumas. After a ...