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Bridgeton historic tour part of CrabFest
(NEW JERSEY) -- To pass through the shadows of the past is to gain a glimpse of the future. Some local history buffs proved that at Saturday's Cohansey RiverFest, during a tour of historic downtown sites.
A Legacy of Prejudice: Lawsuits, Failed Pacts Tell Ugly Story
(WYOMING) -- As a child in California, Helsha Acuña was so sensitive about her Native American heritage—her father was Apache, her mother Aleut—that she sometimes tried to pass herself off as Italian.
Circle of Life Powwow
(TEXAS) -- In conjunction with Celebrate Bandera, the sixth annual Circle of Life Intertribal Powwow takes place over Labor Day weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 3, 4 and 5, under the trees in the back of Mansfield Park off Highway 16. A three-day pass is $5.
BLOG: Background research on Native stereotypes
(CALIFORNIA) -- Here's a good summary of what stereotypes are and how they affect people: Stereotypes are cognitive tools that people use to form impressions of others (Gilbert & Hixon, 1991; Macrae, Milne, & Bodenhausen, 1994).
A Trip Through Time / The John Smith historic water trail could usher in a new era of ecotourism on the Chesapeake.
(MARYLAND) -- "Most people don't appreciate a salt marsh, but this is where the Indian made his living," says Mike Hinman, tribal historian of the Accohannock Indians on Maryland's lower Eastern Shore
Longtime Sioux Indian Museum curator honored
(SOUTH DAKOTA) -- A longtime curator of the Sioux Indian Museum in South Dakota has been honored for her years of service in preserving American Indian history.
Fishing The Lummi Way
(WASHINGTON) -- Just west of Bellingham, a small fleet of reef–netters continues to make a living the way the Lummi tribe invented centuries ago. But these reef–netters aren't Lummis.
Native Writers Workshop planned for Museum
(OKLAHOMA) -- Native American writers from the Southeast are invited to participate in the first-ever Southeast Indian Writers Gathering, to be held Thursday and Friday, Sept. 16 and 17, at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee.
Native Americans to share heritage at Falls powwow
(OHIO) -- From the base of a 30-foot Indian head statue, a group of men rhythmically pounded a drum and chanted a song that sailed across the green lawn of Keyser Park.
PEMBER: Silent No More
(MINNESOTA) -- I arrive in Minneapolis in late March. These first warm spring days mean that the sugar bush camps can begin, a treasured time for Ojibwe families to work together tapping maple trees and spending long hours boiling the sap down to its exquisite syrup.
Johnson honors museum curator for years of service preserving Native history
(SOUTH DAKOTA) -- U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson honored Paulette Montileaux of Rapid City on Monday for her years of service in preserving Native American history
Wichita Tribe to regain artifacts from museum
(KANSAS) -- Members of the Wichita tribe are expected to claim some pieces of their past that have been sitting in a Towanda museum.
Native American weekend teaches Ojibway culture
(MICHIGAN) -- It is all about culture. That’s what several hundred people learned as the Ojibway American Indian tribe gathered for its third annual Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Culture camp Saturday.
Ringwood Ramapoughs will perform in Pow Wow in Vernon
(NEW JERSEY) -- Ringwood's Ramapough Mountain Indians will take part in a long revered tradition in the fourth annual Black Creek Site Celebration and Pow Wow in Vernon.
Indian culture to be celebrated at festival for Hampton's anniversary
(NEW YORK) -- The native people settled in Hampton long before it became the city of Hampton. Now the city is putting the final touches on a free event —Thunder on the Bay — intended to celebrate the influence of American Indians.
Kansas museum to return artifacts to Oklahoma tribe
(OKLAHOMA) -- A Kansas museum has decided to return a replica of a Wichita Indian grass lodge and 15 painted clay figurines to the tribe's headquarters in Anadarko.
American Indians gather at Mount Rushmore
(SOUTH DAKOTA) -- American Indians gathered at Mount Rushmore to mark the 40th anniversary of an occupation of the monument.
An original Code Talker keeps tale alive
(NEW MEXICO) -- Tourists hurry inside a shop here to buy books about the famed Navajo Code Talkers, warriors who used their native language as their primary weapon.
Members of Wichita tribe expected to claim pieces of their past from Towanda museum
(KANSAS) -- Members of the Wichita tribe are expected to claim some pieces of their past that have been sitting in a Towanda museum.
San Ildefonso Pueblo goes back to its future
(NEW MEXICO) -- Not more than a dozen miles from a high-profile lab so cutting edge that PhDs come and go like New York taxi drivers, the soil is worked hard by hand just like it was worked more than 400 years ago.
Tribal wisdom, fun shared in Shiloh Park
(ILLINOIS) -- The rhythm of the drums, singing and chanting flowed out of the oak woods of Shiloh Park on Sunday during the 17th annual Potawatomi Trails Pow-wow.
Long-lost Tlingit peace-sign headpiece finds new home
(ALASKA) -- Back in 1972, during a trip to Puget Sound, Nathan Jackson of Haines found himself expected to perform a Tlingit dance. But he didn't have regalia with him, including a proper head dress.
Chickahominy Tribe to hold 59th Pow-Wow
(VIRGINIA) -- Native Americans from throughout the country will join the Chickahominy Indian Tribe as they celebrate their 58th Annual Fall Festival and Pow-Wow Sept. 25-26 on the Chickahominy Tribal Grounds in Charles City County.
Johnson honors museum curator for years of service preserving Native history
(SOUTH DAKOTA) -- U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson honored Paulette Montileaux of Rapid City on Monday for her years of service in preserving Native American history.
Mashantucket Pequots celebrate with the Green Corn Powwow
(CONNECTICUT) -- To the hard-thumping rhythm of unison drumming and the plaintive chants of singers, elaborately costumed dancers from some 250 tribes stepped, spun and swayed across the multicolored carpet of the MGM Grand ballroom at Foxwoods Resort Casino Saturday.
Courchene: Rites of Passage / Abinoojii Ka kii kwe win and supporting the grandmothers
(MANITOBA) -- The biggest challenge we face as indigenous peoples is to survive in a world that keeps us marginalized with no resources, which are needed to support our ancient indigenous way of life that can help us heal and become strong human beings.
Ice Age man, animals in Arizona
(ARIZONA) -- A lecture by archaeologist Miles Gilbert was held last Thursday evening in the historic Winslow Hubbell Trading Post. His one-hour lecture and slide show described Ice Age man and animals in Arizona. He also brought animal skull fossils.
Sacred site gets respite
(CALIFORNIA) -- A site in rural San Diego County deemed culturally and environmentally sensitive by Indians was given a respite Aug. 5 from being turned into a landfill.
Kawaiisu Indians: Developer does not own remains of families
(CALIFORNIA) -- As California develops its Open Space, Native American Sacred Sites are being destroyed. The State’s environmental law, CEQA, is cited in a Federal Court case brought by a Tribe to protect their Ancestors burial grounds.
Native American remains will be reburied / 12 years ago, road work unearthed graves of prehistoric people
(TENNESSEE) -- After being separated from the land where they once fished, hunted and raised their families, the remains of 21 Native Americans will come back to Brentwood for reburial soon.
Citizens continue efforts to protect ancient Cherokee site
(OKLAHOMA) -- Despite a North Carolina energy company agreeing to move its planned tie station farther away from the ancient mound of Kituwah, a citizens group still wants to know what happened to dirt, and possible tribal relics, taken from where the company cleared land for the station.
After two decades, Chickasaw Cultural Center opens
(OKLAHOMA) -- For generations, members of the Chickasaw Nation told the tribe’s stories of hardship and renewal through its families, community organizations and churches. Using money from its large casino operations, its culture and history is featured in a $40 million cultural center.
BLOG: Time's "Brief History of Intolerance"
(NEW YORK) -- This photo essay contains 13 images. There are four references to Catholics, three to Jews, two to Asians and Indians, and one each to blacks, Mormons, and quasi-religious groups.
Jim Northrup: storyteller, author, playwright, poet, family man, veteran, Anishinaabe
(MINNESOTA) -- At his readings, author, storyteller, poet and playwright Jim Northrup kindly yet wryly invites the listener to join with him as he talks about his experiences as an American Indian and a Vietnam veteran.
Towanda museum to return artifacts to Wichita tribe
(KANSAS) -- Pieces of their past have been sitting in a window in Towanda for four years. This week, members of the Wichita tribe will pick them up and take them home.
'A sense of pride' / Chief Manuelito exhibit opens at Navajo Nation Museum
(ARIZONA) -- He's easily the Navajo Tribe's most famous leader, and yet no in-depth exhibit on his life has ever been undertaken. Until now. Friday, Aug. 27, the Navajo Nation Museum opened "The Chief Manuelito Exhibit," a look at Manuelito and other early leaders of the Diné.
2-day festival offers a chance to learn / Native American Heritage Days aims to break stereotypes
(INDIANA) -- Rebecca Martin wanted to dispel many of the stereotypes about Native Americans in Indiana. Martin said because Indiana does not have any reservations or a large group of Indian people living together, many impressions come from TV or movies.
Inland canyon has ties to OK Corral
(CALIFORNIA) -- The Wild West was alive in the San Timoteo Canyon in the 1800s and was home to a few infamous participants in the shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Ariz.
Original Navajo Code Talker still tells his story
(NEW MEXICO) -- Tourists hurry inside a shop here to buy books about the famed Navajo Code Talkers, warriors who used their native language as their primary weapon.
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