Invisible No More - Native Americans of the Northeast Have Eluded ExtinctionVisitors to the annual Native American Powwow at New Hampshire's Dartmouth College crowd around...Ring, Phyllis Edgerly
Native Americans (also Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, American Indians, Amerindians, Amerind, Indians, First Nations, First Peoples, Native Canadians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are those peoples indigenous to the Americas, living there prior to European colonization. This term encompa...
Native Americans, also known as American Indians and Indigenous Americans, are the indigenous peoples of the United States. By the time European adventurers arrived in the 15th century A.D., scholars estimate that more than 50 million Native Americans we
These Native Americans were among the most familiar to Euro-colonials for more than two centuries. From the tribes of the northeast woodlands came "great hunters, fishermen, farmers and fighters, as well as the most powerful and sophisticated Indian nation north of Mexico [the Iroquois ...
Schmidt, Ethan.Native Americans in the American Revolution: How the War Divided, Devastated, and Transformed the Early American Indian World. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2014. Focuses on Indigenous reactions rather than pursuing a more proactive narrative, but nevertheless provides a well-written ext...
Native Americans had many different kinds of shelters depending upon where they lived. Some used portable structures that could be moved to follow the bison herds. These structures were called the tipi. Some built homes out of logs. Others built homes from mud bricks they baked in the sun. ...
Native American tribes are as varied as the landscapes they inhabited. From coastal climes to deserts, from the mountains to the plains, tribes adapted to regions they inhabited. In the Northeast, modern-day New England, tribes practiced some agriculture, along with hunting and gathering when seas...
In a small cave southeast of Hueco Tanks, north of the village of Fort Hancock, Texas, we find intriguing rock paintings of a jaguar, a Horned Serpent and Tlaloc. In another cave, this one northeast of Hueco Tanks, just north of the Texas/New Mexico border, we find an especially hauntin...
The United States of America was born of cooperation and conflict. On one side were the Native Americans, represented by dozens of different tribes from coast to coast. On the other were the European settlers, who flocked to the New World seeking freedom or fortune. What began as a sometimes...
"The Western Apache ranged over highly varied topography," said Winfred Buskirk inThe Western Apache. "On the north they inhabited the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau… The San Francisco Peaks in the northwest (over 12,000 feet) and the White Mountains in the northeast (over 11,000 fe...