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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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