Native American tribes use the Turtle Island folklore story to explain how North America came into existence. Although specific details vary by tribe, the underlying theme remains consistent. According to oral tradition, the Earth began as a mass completely covered by water. Every animal in the se...
Native American and Canadian Indian tribes have passed down stories going back thousands of years about giant ape-men. They called these creatures Sasquatch or Mountain Devils. Regardless of the names,the descriptions of these animals are usually the same. The Bigfoot is usually described as being...
The American Indian Holocaust, known as the "500 year war" and the "World's Longest Holocaust In The History Of Mankind And Loss Of Human Lives." Genocide and Denying It: Why We Are Not Taught that the Natives of the United States and Canada were Extermi
In 1990, Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA. It allowed for remains to be returned to tribes at their request. But the lawsuit said the Army refused to follow that law and is instead requiring the tribe to adhere to an Army...
Archaeological studies of Native American societies in the Chesapeake have recently incorporated a broader range of interpretive frames, including those th
Before Europeans settled North America, Native American tribes lived in five major parts of the United States: the Northeast, the South, the Great Plains, the Pacific Coast, and the deserts of the Southwest. Ancient artifacts show that native peoples fished off the coast of New England as long...
Native American children and adolescents are at particularly high risk of obesity (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9); there is a notably elevated prevalence of obesity in tribes in the southwestern United States (6). In Canada, excessive pediatric obesity was reported in the eastern James Bay Cree of ...
Broadly comparative works includeWestern Indians: Comparative Environments, Languages, and Cultures of 172 Western American Indian Tribes(1980), on Northwest Coast, Californian, North American Plateau, Great Basin, and Southwest peoples;Christopher VecseyandRobert W. Venables(eds.),American Indian Environme...
A man in dance regalia at the United Tribes Powwow in Bismarck, North Dakota. © MedioImages/Getty Images UN forum: “Indigenous Children and Youth” Representatives of indigenous groups attending a United Nations forum on “Indigenous... ...
Today, what I'm sharing with you are my research notes. If you follow my blogs, you'll know that I have a fundamental, lifelong interest in Native American people and am mixed blood myself. I feel that DNA is just one of the pieces of history that can