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 Native Americans
Native Americans make up the majority of the population in Bolivia and Peru, and are a significant element in most other former Spanish colonies.
In the American Southwest, especially New Mexico, a syncretism between the Catholicism brought by Spanish missionaries and the native religion is common; the religious drums, chants, and dances of the Pueblo people are regularly part of Masses at Santa Fe's Saint Francis Cathedral.
Native American contributions include pottery, paintings, jewelry, weavings, sculptures, basketry, and carvings.Artists have at times misrepresented themselves as having native parentage, most notably Johnny Cash, who traced his heritage to Scottish ancestors and admitted he fabricated a story that he was one-quarter Cherokee.
www.crystalinks.com /nativeamericans.html   (3903 words)

  
 Resource Collection Index Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
christopher columbus and the destruction of native americans
how native americans were driven from their land
ties with native americans on the lewis and clark expedition
search-now009.com /sites/nativeamericans.html   (196 words)

  
 Discrimination against Native Americans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The main resource of Native Americans, their land, is leased out to corporations (for mining, waste dumping, ranching, farming, and gaming) by arrangement with the BIA who also control hiring for the migrant worker and regulatory jobs that come with these subsidized business incentive packages.
Native Americans rarely live past age 70, and their suicide rates as well as infant mortality rates are double the national average.
Likewise, Native American parents can be extremely overly protective of their children, a fact that should be taken into consideration by juvenile workers.
faculty.ncwc.edu /toconnor/soc/355lect12.htm   (3241 words)

  
 Iroquois
However, unlike other native populations which continued to drop, the Iroquois, through the massive adoption of conquored Iroquian-speaking enemies (at least 7,000 Huron, and similar numbers of Neutrals, Susquehannock, Tionontati, and Erie), actually increased and reached their maximum number in 1660, about 25,000.
Angered by the American arrest of Sir John Johnson (William's son) for loyalist activities, Brant defied the Iroquois council and led his warriors north to stop the American attempt to capture Canada during the winter of 1776-77.
At the conference, they threw the American proposal in the fire and called the Iroquois representatives "coward red men." The role of the Iroquois League in the Ohio Valley had definitely ended, and they were fortunate to leave the meeting with their lives.
www.tolatsga.org /iro.html   (22114 words)

  
 Native_Americans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Native Americans (also Original Americans, 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.
The term Native American may be construed to either include or exclude the Métis of Canada and the Mestizos and Zambos of Latin America.
It is a syncretistic church incorporating elements of native spiritual practice from a number of different tribes as well as symbolic elements from Christianity.
www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Native_Americans   (4895 words)

  
 Delaware
Livestock was easy prey for native hunters, and to make matters worse, the Dutch allowed their animals to roam freely in the woods, which often resulted in their invading the unfenced native corn fields with disastrous results.
Although the British were still encouraged the war, the Americans had opened negotiations with them to end their support of the alliance and to agree to abandon the forts they still occupied on American territory.
However, in a 1904 decision, the federal courts ruled that the government had not conferred ownership on Native Americans, but only the "right of occupancy." Therefore, the sale of land by Cherokee in 1867 had only given the Delaware the right to occupy the land during their own lifetimes.
www.tolatsga.org /dela.html   (16675 words)

  
 Native Americans
Though we do not usually think of Native Americans and "The New World" as part of medieval times, it must be remembered people have been living in the Americas for 15000 years.
Over the next 400 years, the experiences of other Native Americans with Europeans would not always amount to genocide, but they would typically be disastrous for the Native Americans.
In the late nineteenth century reformers in efforts to civilize Indians adapted the practice of educating native children in boarding schools.
home.comcast.net /~sylvanarrow/native_americans.htm   (1567 words)

  
 Native Americans
The Dewey classification, with a few minor problems was found to be quite unbiased, but the Library of Congress classification was found to be quite outdated, at least in the versions available for public use.
Abstract: This study evaluates the classification patterns established by the Library of Congress for the "hyperborean languages of America and the kindred languages of Asia." The current analysis examines the treatment, bibliographic access, and retrieval limitations in the current LC classification system as applied to the Alaskan Native languages.
The American Indian is segregated from the United States, the American Indian history is arranged with bias, and the American Indians appear frequently as a savage people.
www.sois.uwm.edu /SOIS/marginal/NativeAmericans.htm   (1098 words)

  
 Native Americans
At the time of the first natives, huge ice sheets covered much of the northern half of the earth and much of the earth that is now underwater was dry land.
This website provides access to Native American information and organizations, a forum for student discussions and publication of their project work, and tools for Native American research within the networked classroom.
The site describes how the Native Americans made these arts and crafts, what they were made of, and how they were used.
www.42explore2.com /native.htm   (2190 words)

  
 Native American Language Net: Preserving and promoting indigenous American Indian languages
We are a small non-profit organization dedicated to the survival of Native American languages, particularly through the use of Internet technology.
Actually, Native American languages do not belong to a single Amerindian family, but 25-30 small ones; they are usually discussed together because of the small numbers of natives speaking most of these languages and how little is known about many of them.
Native American Languages: Linguistic overview of the Amerindian language families, with language maps
www.native-languages.org   (1052 words)

  
 Native American Peoples of the Desert Southwest - DesertUSA
Many cultural and linguistic Native American groups made (and still make) the deserts of the American Southwest their home.
As with all desert life, water was of primary concern, and communities tended to form near sources of free water, which were vital habitats for desert animals and plants as well.
Native American culture permeates the desert regions of North America, even to this day.
www.desertusa.com /ind1/du_peo_native1.html   (213 words)

  
 Native American   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ironically, the horse had originally evolved in the Americas, but the last American horses, (species Equus Scotti and others http://www.acnatsci.org/museum/jefferson/otherFossils/equus.html) died out at the end of the last ice age.
According to 2003 United States Census Bureau estimates, a little over one third of the 2,786,652 Native Americans in the United States live in three states: California at 413,382, Arizona at 294,137 and Oklahoma at 279,559 http://www.census.gov/popest/states/asrh/tables/SC-EST2003-04.pdf.
Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience 1875-1928, University Press of Kansas, 1975.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/Native-American.htm   (4907 words)

  
 American Indian and Alaska Native Populations
American Indian Languages Spoken at Home by American Indian Persons 5 Years and Over in Households: 1990 (5k)
Background Information Related to Racial and Ethnic Classifications in Census 2000 The federal government is considering changes in the guidelines for classifying race and ethnic data.
Census Advisory Committee on the American Indian and Alaska Native Populations
www.census.gov /population/www/socdemo/race/indian.html   (539 words)

  
 Encyclopedia
Algonquin on Encyclopedia.com They were among the first Native Americans with
Native Americans and the environment: A survey Paiute on Encyclopedia.com...to
Native Native American Arkansas Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Arkansas...
www.mongabay.com /topics/Encyclopedia.htm   (855 words)

  
 Native American Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
ROOTS-BBS;" American Indian Research" This is an text file, from Roots Bulletin Board System, "HowTo.cen", downloaded 06 Jan. 1995 author unknown, list some "Howto" items on researching American Indians; For more public domain genealogical software, data, and queries, contact ROOR-BBS at (415)-584-0697.
Spencer, Robert F., and Jennings, Jesse D., et al., The Native Americans: Ethnology and Backgrounds of the North American Indians, 2d ed.
In the early 1900's 46,000 Americans attempted to prove their descent from the Eastern Cherokee Indian tribe in order to participate in a $1 million fund appropriated by the U.S. Congress for descendants of this tribe.
members.aol.com /bbbenge/page12.html   (3256 words)

  
 Native Americans
The Illustrating Traveler: 18th and 19th Century artists paintings of Native Americans
Native American Nations of the Black Mesa Region
Native American Sites: Maintained by Lisa Mitten, Very extensive site
www.deweybrowse.org /native_americans.htm   (62 words)

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