Pueblo Indian Girl. Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your Mother and all things as your Brothers and Sisters. – Tribe Unknown Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand. – Tribe Unknown White men have too many chiefs. –Nez ...
Native Americans have been in the Americas for at least 15,000 years, and it’s easy to see their influence in art, music, food, games, products, words, and names throughout the United States. While many rivers, towns, and states have names that are Native in origin, Native American n...
Algonquian languages, North American Indian language family whose member languages are or were spoken in Canada, New England, the Atlantic coastal region southward to North Carolina, and the Great Lakes region and surrounding areas westward to the Rocky
More than 50% of state names are based on Native American words. Twenty-seven state names have Indian meanings, including Utah, named for the Ute tribe; Kentucky, which means planted field in the Iroquois language; Kansas, named for the Kanza (Kaw) tribe; and dozens more. – from ourNati...
Beaver medicine can be summed up by the words tenacity, diligence and willpower. Unlike Otter, beaver is a rather stoic chap who focuses on a task until it’s done right. Solid planning and hard work goes hand in hand with beaver energy when it shows up in your life. This doesn’t ...
depopulation are examined inNoble David Cook,Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492–1650(1998);David Henige,Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population Debate(1998); andDavid S. Jones,Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality Since 1600(...
See also the glossary words breath mark and caesura.See Meter for the Native American Flute / Fermata.Fetish— see BlockFinger HolesThe holes on the body of a Native American flute where you rest your fingers, or lift them off of, when playing....
Indigenous communities are building their own machine-learning and artificial intelligence tools to preserve languages—and heritages—that are on the brink.
Religions and beliefs were very important to the Native American way of life. Animism is a commonly shared belief amongst American Indian tribes. It is based on the spiritual belief that everything, living, natural or inanimate and has a soul or spirit The religious leader of each Native Ameri...
(1999, p. 199) sees evidence for the initial development of Proto-Algonquians in southern Ontario and their outward movement between 500 BC and AD 900. Under this scenario, population movement into the Middle Atlantic region and the Chesapeake occurred during the Middle Woodland. Protowords for ...