As Congress mulls significant cuts to Medicaid, Native American tribes are bracing for potentially devastating financial fallout. Mar 14 Wood thinned from forests prevents wildfires and heats Native American homes Families living on tribal lands are 1,200 times more likely to live in homes with heati...
His tribes stream in from east & west, exceeding fruitful the lands they enrich. In this granary of a continent this basin of the Missippii must not the nations be greatly multiplied & blest? (NN CM 497) Abraham symbolizes here the ideal nationhood in which various "tribes" or "nations"...
Understand more aboutNative American removalfrom their ancestral lands,how the Cherokee Nation resisted removaland the story ofthe Muscogee Nation's experience before, during, and after removal See for yourself If you travel to North America, you canexperience Native American culturein the USA andvis...
“Native Intelligence“: An excellent new article by Charles Mann in the Smithsonian on the true stories of early native/colonist interactions. 1491by Charles Mann, on the sophistication of Native American societies prior to contact with Europeans. Wampanoag culture:http://www.native-languages.org/...
From the very first interaction, the social and political relations between the Native Americans and the Europeans had begun with much tension. Many Europeans came to the Americas with the intention of discovery. However, when it became apparent that these new lands were inhibited the motives chang...
The major political development of the late 20th century was the growing strength and assertiveness of Oklahoma’s Native American population, whose tribal leaders increasingly pressed for compensation for lost lands. Remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma CityRemains of the Alfred...
Supreme Court ruled that the disturbance of the practice of religion need not be weighed against economic benefit in determining how public lands are to be used. Apart from the Native American church and Native Christian congregations, most American Indian traditionalists believe that ceremonial work...
Native American Cultures The buffalo was an essential part of Native American life, used in everything from religious rituals to teepee construction.Because it is such an inhospitable landscape, the Arctic’s population was comparatively small and scattered. Some of its peoples, especially the Inuit...
Native Americans attacked settlements, while colonists enslaved indigenous people, seized their lands and took advantage of them in trading negotiations. Scores of Native Americans were displaced from North Carolina or killed by smallpox and other diseases brought by the settlers. Skirmishes between ...
Under state law, the Colorado State Land Board manages CSU lands. Some of the lands granted to CSU generate income, and a CSU System Board of Governors policy instructs a portion of that revenue from the endowment land income fund is used for the benefit of Native American students, faculty...