Native American Health and Mental Health Needs in Eastern TribesChungFan NiFelicia WilkinsTurnerDiane E. LiebertValerie Ellien
Other archaeologists seem to agree with the proposition that the mounds must have served ritual purposes. In An Introduction to American Archaeology, Volume One, Gordon R. Willey says that a building constructed on a mound at a Hohokam site called Gatlin, near Gila Bend, Arizona, "had an inte...
New York’s Native American History Semi-nomadic Indigenous people have been living in the area now known as New York for at least 13,000 years, settling in the space around Lake Champlain, the Hudson River Valley and Oneida Lake. The Haudenosaunee Na
Join us as we learn about Native Americans for Kids; this week’s lesson is on the Eastern Woodland Tribes. In this hands-on Native American lesson we explored the indigenous people living what isnow the eastern half of the United States of America from Illinois to the Atlantic Ocean and ...
Many of the smaller eastern tribes have been trying to gain official recognition of their tribal status. The recognition confers some benefits, including the right to label arts and crafts as Native American and they can apply for grants that are specifically reserved for Native Americans. But gai...
Today, there are eight federally-recognized Native American tribes in North Carolina, including the Coharie, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Haliwa-Saponi, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, the Meherrin, the Sappony, the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation and the Waccamaw Siouan...
SMA has extensive experience with the cultural-specific aspects of any project located on Native American lands and has the proven ability to facilitate the progress of such projects. Since 1985, SMA has worked with numerous Nations and Tribes. Projects have included planning, design, surveying, lo...
The Impact of the Indian Removal Act on Eastern Native American Tribes Secretary of War John Eaton informed the Choctaw that they ought to give up their land and relocate west of the Mississippi because there would be no guarantee that the state of Mississippi would not take over their lands ...
Native American - Prehistory, Tribes, Culture: Indigenous Americans had (and have) rich traditions concerning their origins, but until the late 19th century, most outsiders’ knowledge about the Native American past was speculative at best. Among the mor
Scholars have divided the region’s people into two language groups: the Athabaskan speakers at its western end, among them the Tsattine (Beaver), Gwich’in (or Kuchin) and the Deg Xinag (formerly—and pejoratively—known as the Ingalik), and the Algonquian speakers at its eastern end, ...