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  Fox (Native American) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fox tribe of Native Americans are an Algonquian language-speaking group that are now merged with the allied Sac tribe as the Sac and Fox Nation.
The Second Fox War of 1728 found the remaining 1500 Fox reduced to 500 who found shelter with the Sac and brought French animosity to that tribe.
Fox who had successfully fled west of the Mississippi River were known as the "lost people" by the Dakota.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fox_(Native_American)   (777 words)

  
 Native American Indian Heritage Month
Native Americans from Indian Territory were also recruited by Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders and saw action in Cuba in the Spanish-American War in 1898.
Native American men and women on the home front also showed an intense desire to serve their country, and were an integral part of the war effort.
Native American warriors are devoted to the survival of their people and their homeland.
www.defenselink.mil /specials/nativeamerican01/warrior.html   (1880 words)

  
 Fox (Native American) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Fox originally lived east of (A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region) Michigan along the (A North American river; flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the North Atlantic) Saint Lawrence River.
Members of the Fox tribe spread through southern (A midwestern state in north central United States) Wisconsin, and the (A state in midwestern United States) Iowa- (A Midwest state in north-central United States) Illinois border.
Fox who had successfully fled west of the (A major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico) Mississippi River were known as the "lost people" by the (The area of the states of North Dakota and South Dakota) Dakota.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/fox_(native_american)1.htm   (363 words)

  
 Discrimination against Native Americans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
Since the U.S. stopped doing it, desegregation laws have forced Native American schoolchildren to compete in the same classrooms as white students, where cultural and language differences have ensured that Native American schoolchildren are the only minority group to have a steady decline in their scholastic achievement tests with advancement in grade.
faculty.ncwc.edu /toconnor/soc/355lect12.htm   (3241 words)

  
 Lincoln/Net: Native American Relations
In this conflict Native American tribes aligned themselves with the French and suffered a decisive defeat at the hands of the British Empire.
The outcome of the American revolution shattered this promising arrangement for the Indian tribes, and sent American settlers pouring westward.
Despite Americans' claim to the Northwest Territories, the British remained a major presence there for several decades and collaborated with Indian forces led by the Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh to battle Americans in the unsuccessful War of 1812.
lincoln.lib.niu.edu /nativeamerican.html   (898 words)

  
 White Dove's Native American Indian Site Fox/Mesquakie
Officially known as the Sac and Fox of Iowa, the Mesquakies are the only Native American tribe in Iowa today.
For thirty years the tribe fended off these groups, but in 1730, in an effort to salvage what was left of their group, the Mesquakies formed a close alliance with the nearby Sauks.
One Sauk band, whose leader was accused of instigating the treaty, broke away from the tribe and became officially recognized by the Americans as "the sak [a corruption of Sauk] and Fox of the Missouri." Concurrently the remaining group was named "the Sak and Fox of the Mississippi."
users.multipro.com /whitedove/encyclopedia/fox-mesquakie.html   (803 words)

  
 Native American Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A Cahuilla Native American schoolteacher discusses her background, relatives on the Cahuilla reservation as well as intertribal and racial relations, relations with the local and federal authorities, and the type of education received in the Native American schools.
The Native American life-style, the heritage, and the cultural identity surrounding it is explained and compared to the white life-style.
A young Native American student from the Chemehuevi tribe near Parker, Arizona comments on problems involved with land and water rights of the tribe along the Colorado River, and her feelings and the pressures encountered being an Native American student at University of California, Los Angeles.
coph.fullerton.edu /NativeAmericanProject.htm   (3659 words)

  
 Leaf Arrow - Native American StoryTellers
They are a married couple using story, song and dance to celebrate the special relationship the Native American people have always had with the Earth and their respect for the natural environment.
American Indian Dance Theatre (Wolf Trap) -The American Indian Dance Theatre was formed in May 1987 when more than 20 Native American dancers, singers and drummers, representing a variety of North American tribes, gathered in Colorado Springs to begin rehearsals as a revolutionary new theatrical dance company.
AICH was founded in 1969, by Native American volunteers as a community-based organization, mandated to improve the status of Native Americans, and to foster inter-cultural understanding.
leafarrow.tripod.com   (634 words)

  
 Fox (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
FOX Sports Net the name for a group of regional cable sports stations
Fox Film Corporation, which later became part of the Twentieth Century Fox movie studio.
The Fox family of the comic strip FoxTrot.
www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/FOX   (221 words)

  
 Native American History Celebration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The resources available here are intended to promote education and awareness of the Native American way of life and celebrate the vast diversity of individual tribes and their existence in our world today.
Keepers of the earth : native American stories and environmental activities for children / Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac ; foreword by N. Scott Momaday ; illustrations by John Kahionhes Fadden and Carol Wood.
Native Americans of the Northwest, Plains, Southwest, and Woodlands regions.
coe.etsu.edu /Diversity/NativeAmerican.htm   (722 words)

  
 Native American   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Chagak, a young Native American woman living during the Ice Age, sees an enemy tribe massacre her family, is forced to bear the child of her enemy, and embarks on a personal quest for survival and revenge.
Kit Fox's sixteenth year with her people, the Bloods, is filled with preparations for an important buffalo run, talk of her older sister's coming marriage, and skirmishes with their traditional enemy, the Snakes.
Overhearing what seems to be a bomb plot and discovering a dead body in the trunk of his car are only the beginnings of a dangerous adventure in which a high school senior rediscovers his father, an undercover agent, and becomes involved in a fight against dispossessing the Navajos of their lands forever.
whsweb.nsd.org /popups-nativeamerican.html   (3393 words)

  
 Native Americans: Sac and Fox History and Culture (Mesquakie-Sauk)
The emphasis of these pages is on American Indians as a living people with a present and a future as well as a past.
Sac and Fox history is interesting and important, but the Sac and Fox are still here today, too, and we try to feature modern writers as well as traditional folklore, contemporary art as well as museum pieces, and the issues and struggles of today as well as the tragedies of yesterday.
Homepage of the Sac and Fox of Oklahoma
www.native-languages.org /sac-fox.htm   (425 words)

  
 Native American Culture - Oklahoma City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Red Earth Festival is the largest Native American cultural and arts exposition in the world.
On the south side of the capitol is a monumental sculpture "As Long as the Waters Flow," by Native American sculptor Allan Houser.
Dominating the interior are several large sculptures, the most famous of which is james Earle Fraser's 18-foot-tall "End of the Trail." While focusing on the rugged individualism and romantic spirit of the frontier, Native American history and culture is woven throughout the museum and its vast art collection.
www.okccvb.org /special/native_am.htm   (528 words)

  
 Native American - Mainland Traditions
A "Star" is Born: Native American quilter Polly (member of the Three Affiliated Tribes - Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara) demonstrates how Star Quilts are created.
Exhibition of Native American Quilts Premieres at Smithsonian: Announcement by The Crafts Report of the "To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions" exhibit.
Native Quilts - Celebrating Tradition: This article is an in-depth review of the exhibit, "To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions", an exhibition organized by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
www.quiltethnic.com /mainland.html   (1289 words)

  
 Native American Ways
Native American dancers imitate movements of the hunt during a traditional "sneak up" dance at the Flushing Town Hall pow wow.
Silver and stone Native American jewelry was on sale throughout the afternoon to mark the occasion.
Many Native Americans, and organizations like Amnesty International, believe Peltier was wrongly imprisoned for the murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge reservation in 1975.
www.qgazette.com /news/2000/0301/Feature_Story   (600 words)

  
 Native American Orphan Dolls
Although, most dolls are created in approximately the size of a 10 month old child, dolls can also be ordered in sizes from newborn to 3 years of age.
Buntings are made from all types of fur, most often fox, rabbit, beaver, coyote, mink or raccoon.
Native American Orphan dolls are often mistaken for live children!
ndnbabies.hypermart.net   (376 words)

  
 NATIVE AMERICAN WEB
Native American law resource page with links to Native American legal organizations, Native American student organizations, Native American arts and culture, Native American government agencies, Native American Education, Native American Tribes, Native American national organizations and institutes, Native American news, Native American research guides, and much more.
American Indians continue to be the least represented of all minority groups in the country in fields requiring advanced degrees.
AIGC was founded to help open the doors to graduate education for American Indians and to help tribes obtain the educated Indian professionals they need to become more self-sufficient and to exercise their rights to self-determination.
www.washlaw.edu /doclaw/subject/nativ5m.html   (326 words)

  
 American Indian History Resources
The North American Indian This page is a gateway to information concerning approximately 80 western Native American tribes, visited and photographed by Edward Sheriff Curtis from 1890 to 1930, taken from "The North American Indian", Curtis' massive lifework.
Native American Constitution and Law Digitalization Project Tribal constitutions and codes are the heart of self-government for over 500 federally recognized tribes, and are the lifeblood of Indian sovereignty.
Land Transfers from Native Americans to Whites: 1775-1894 "These two maps reveal the dramatic transfer of Indian Lands in to white hands between 1775 and 1894.
www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp /~krkvls/history.html   (2561 words)

  
 Sac and Fox on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sac and Fox culture was of the Eastern Woodlands area with some Plains-area traits (see under Natives, North American).
The Fox were fierce warriors and constantly waged war with the Ojibwa.
The French, harassed by the Fox, waged a war of extermination; by 1730 they had reduced the Fox to a mere handful.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/SacN1F1ox.asp   (550 words)

  
 Awesome Library - Social_Studies
Provides suggestions for making the education of Native American children congruent with their culture and thereby reducing their drop out rate.
Provides sources of funds for Native American projects to generate clean energy, such as using wind turbines.
Intergenerational Trauma in Native Americans (USD.edu - Ottenbacher)
www.awesomelibrary.org /Classroom/Social_Studies/Multicultural/Native_American.html   (1284 words)

  
 Native American Links
Native American News - This is the World Wide Web home of Wotanging Ikche -- a Native American newsletter distributed by Gary Night Owl.
Kiehan's Native American Issues - This site is dedicated to the publication and petitioning of problem "issues" that affect the indigenous peoples of the United States (and it's territories), Canada, Mexico, and Central and South America.
The Asakiwaki (Sauk) and Meshkwahkihaki (Mesquakie/Fox) are two distinct Native American nations are united in Oklahoma as the Sac and Fox Nation.
www.thegoldweb.com /voices/spiritlinks.htm   (781 words)

  
 Native Americans - Lesson Plans for Elementary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Know why plants and animals were important to Native Americans and be able to identify some of the common ones.
Emphasize the importance of rain to Native Americans.
Have the children brainstorm other ways that the Native Americans could have solved their problem of being hungry and finding no buffalo.
www.libsci.sc.edu /miller/native.htm   (1883 words)

  
 Native American Tales
Jewels of Clay Native American are known for their incredible talent in reviving the ancient art of potter, basketry and jewelry.
Silver Wave Native American Music Music that honors traditional Native songs and brings them int the present with the addition of instrumentation and collaboration.
Native Hands Gallery Native Hands Gallery presents the finest in traditional and contemporary Native American jewelry by award-winning Southwestern silversmiths.
www.fortunecity.com /skyscraper/temple/1451/na   (569 words)

  
 NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
Traditional and contemporary North American Indigenist  Women’s values will be examined in contexts of survival, ecology, law, reproduction, and education.
Native American Testimony:  A chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492 - 1992, Peter Nabokov, ed.
Messengers of the Wind: Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories, Jane Katz, ed.
www.csubak.edu /~awaters/NativeAmericanWomenCourse.htx   (902 words)

  
 American Indian Literature Resources
American Indian Fiction 1968-1983 Paula Gunn Allen in Literary History of the American West (1998)
Native American Oral Literatures The Heath Anthology of American Literature (3rd ed.)
Native American Literature Conference: University of Oregon 1997
www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp /~krkvls/literature.html   (1056 words)

  
 NATIVE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
From A Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism, 1985-1995.
Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, p.379.
Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1896).
www.uh.edu /~cfreelan/SWIP/nativeam.html   (896 words)

  
 Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Founded by Burne Stanley-Peters and her late husband Slow Turtle, the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness, Inc. (MCNAA) was incorporated as a private 501(c)(3)nonprofit organization in April 1989.
Our vision is that MCNAA will be the major organization in Massachusetts that supports the well-being of Native Americans who are striving to maintain pride in their culture.
The Governing Board is comprised of seven members whose heritage is from a number of Native American nations.
www.mcnaa.org   (198 words)

  
 Native American Heritage Observance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A husband and wife who are members of a local Indian tribe will take part in the installation’s observance of National Native American Heritage Month starting at 1 p.m., Nov.4, at the post theater.
Originating in the Suffolk area of the Hampton Roads, their tribe is one of eight indigenous Indian tribes recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The Smiths will talk about tribal farming, hunting and fishing practices, and types of houses their ancestor’s used and how they were built.
www-tradoc.army.mil /casemate/stack/102204heritageevent.htm   (356 words)

  
 First Nations Site Index...
To state that there is a worthy "tradition" and heritage in the name, and that it should thus be kept, is to enforce the notion of the heritage of racism against Native peoples and the tradition of keeping them only as a mascot.
NCIDC is a non-profit organization founded in 1976 to meet the social, educational, and economic development needs of American Indian communities and for the conservation and preservation of cultural, historic, and traditional resources and sites.
Hitler himself often expressed his admiration for the expediency in which the American Christians removed the Native Americans and gave them mass graves like the one in Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
www.dickshovel.com /www.html   (1990 words)

  
 Native American Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This page is a collection of Native American resources Kathy wanted to start looking for her Indian ancestors but didn't know where to begin.
National Archives and Records Administration - Case files for the more than 50,000 Americans who enrolled in the Five Civilized Tribes between 1898 and 1914 help genealogists trace their Cherokee, Creek, or Seminole roots.
Native American Genealogy Group on America On Line
members.amaonline.com /nrogers/native.htm   (152 words)

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