Research and creation of this site is a labor-of-Love. My motivation is simple--citizens of North American continent, with the increased consciousness in this new millennium, may come to a growing realization ofour responsibility for our historical treatment of First People and exploitation of our...
Origin: Native American (Algonquin) Meaning:Playful one Alternative Spellings & Variations: Pokahontas, Pocahantas, Pocohontas, Pokahantus Famous Namesakes: The historical figure, Pocahontas, is known to have helped the early settlers in Jamestown, Virginia. Peak Popularity: Pocahontas is rare. It ...
Like creation stories, Native American trickster stories fulfill an explanatory function about the world; they also explain why social codes exist and why they are needed. The trickster character—often represented as an animal such as a coyote, a raven, or a hare—is a figure of scatological ...
Nadua (Native American)–“Someone found”; after the historical figure Cynthia Ann Parker who was renamed “Nadua” by the Comanche tribe that took her (she got accepted into the tribe and eventually married chief Peta Nocona, with whom she had three children) Nakoma (Native American –Iowa...
[1920 – 2015] is considered the father of the Everglades by his tribe. He is also a historical figure of note: In 1959, Buffalo Tiger led a delegation to Cuba and secured formal diplomatic recognition from the government of Fidel Castro of the Miccosukee. In 1962, the US Government ...
This particular motif would become the spine of Wayne’s screen persona, so often playing the figure in movies – and then with less success in real life – who beyond being a great shot or fighter is also a man blessed with raw-boned wisdom, one who’s been around the block a few ...
the figure of a hummingbird. Mesoamerican Fingerprints The Mesoamericans influenced the Indians of the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts most profoundly through the introduction of agriculture, although the notion of growing crops, rather than hunting and gathering, for food and resources took hold fit...
Her castaway tale captured 19th-century imaginations and inspired the novel 'Island of the Blue Dolphins.' Scholars today are diving deeper into her people's history in California's colonial past.
This section focuses on the lives of American Indians of the Northern Plains and the Rocky Mountain region. Native peoples have lived in this region for thousands of years. When Euro-Americans moved into this part of America, conflicts followed. Despite being forced onto reservations and having ...
[15].As of 2000, the largest tribes in the U.S. by population were Cherokee, Navajo, Choctaw, Sioux, Chippewa, Apache, Blackfeet, Iroquois, and Pueblo. In 2000 eight of ten Americans with Native American ancestry were of mixed blood. It is estimated that by 2100 that figure will rise...