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	Native American fighting styles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Native American fighting styles were used by the indigenous people on the North American continent to fight each other; when Europeans arrived, the indigenous people tried, unsuccessfully, to use them to repel the encroachment of the European expansion into the territories.
		Native American ritual fighting with enemy tribes was not always expensive in terms of lives lost nor was it composed of a search for destructive weaponry.
		Some of the Native American fighting styles could be regarded today as forms of guerrilla warfare, in the French and Indian War for example.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Native_American_fighting_styles (1511 words)

	Native American - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The term Native American may be construed to either include or exclude the Métis of Canada and the Mestizos and Zambos of Latin America.
		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.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Native_American (4981 words)

	Learn more about Native American in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Native Americans (American Indians, Amerindians, or Red Indians) are indigenous peoples, who lived in the Americas prior to the European colonization; some of these ethnic groups still exist.
		Native Americans officially make up the majority of the population in Bolivia, Peru and Guatemala and are significant in most other former Spanish colonies, with the exception of Costa Rica, Cuba, Argentina, Dominican Republic and Uruguay.
		Another difficulty is that many Native American groups migrated (or were displaced) to their current locations after the start of European colonization, and therefore it can be argued that they have no more "native" ties to their current locations than do the Europeans.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /n/na/native_american.html (2081 words)

	Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Native Americans in the United States (also known as Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are the indigenous peoples within the territory that is now encompassed by the continental United States and their descendants in modern times.
		The use of Native American themed team names in American professional sports is widespread and often controversial, with examples such as Chief Wahoo of the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Redskins.
		The prototypical "American Indian princess" was Pocahontas, and, in fact, descent from her is a frequent claim.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States (5507 words)

	ipedia.com: Native American Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Native Americans (also Indians, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Red Indians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants.
		Native Americans officially make up the majority of the population in Bolivia, Peru, and Guatemala and are a significant element in most other former Spanish colonies, with the exception of Costa Rica, Cuba, Argentina, Dominican Republic and Uruguay.
		While many Native American groups retained a nomadic or semi-nomadic lifestyle down to the time of European invasion, in some regions, specifically in the Mississippi River valley of the United States, in Mexico, Central America, the Andes of South America, they built advanced civilizations with monumental architecture and large-scale organizaton into cities and states.
	www.ipedia.com /native_american.html (3259 words)

	Martial art
		Systems of fighting have likely been in development since learning became transferable among humans, along with the strategies of conflict and war.
		As part of the response to sport martial arts, new forms of competition are being held such as the Ultimate Fighting Champions in the U.S. or Pancrase in Japan which are also known as mixed martial arts or MMA events.
		Arriving in the Seattle area in the 1960s, he soon encountered styles of other martial arts, such as those practiced by established communities of post-Internment Japanese Americans and Filipino Americans in the Pacific Northwest.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/m/ma/martial_art.html (1608 words)

	Genealogical Research Using FBI Files
		A growing number of Americans with a Native American background are beginning their research in genealogy.
		Had Native Americans been treated as normal citizens and the same efforts made to keep Indian vital and historical records as a matter of policy, the information available to researchers would be more complete.
		In most states, the Native Americans who renounced their tribal affiliations were lumped in with whites if they were living in white sections, or fl if living with fl residents.
	www.uwm.edu /~baugrud/helpfiles/nativeam.htm (2616 words)

	FightingArts Forums: native americans
		Probably - there are certainly styles that use the tomahawk, although I don't know off hand if they come from native american fighting systems.
		I can assure you that Natives have methodized killing methods, being a quarter Southern Creek self I have frequented the Cherokee and Creek Historical landmarks and reservation in Macon GA. You will not find any formal instruction nor will you find a "grandmaster" of it, since each tribe was as different as the seasons.
		Native Plains Indian fighting is very brutal to say the least, actually it fits more as a military close combat system since it contains bulk lethal techniques, stealth intrusion, survival tactics, and knife and blade wielding expertise.
	www.fightingarts.com /ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=137714 (588 words)

	Indians - Bloodwiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		American Indians (also Indians, Native Americans, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants.
		Military defeat, cultural pressure, confinement on reservations, forced cultural assimilation, the outlawing of native languages and culture, forced sterilizations, termination policies of the 1950s and 1960s, and slavery have had deleterious effects on Native Americans' mental and ultimately physical health.
		According to 2003 United States Census Bureau estimates, a little over one third of the 2,752,158 Native Americans in the United States are in three states: California at 410,501, Arizona at 286,680 and Oklahoma at 278,124 [7] (http://eire.census.gov/popest/data/states/ST-EST2002-ASRO-03.php).
	www.bloodshed.org /lagowiki/index.php?title=Indians&printable=yes (3359 words)

	Martial Arts @ BareHands.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fighting with weapons can be rather different from unarmed fighting, both because strikes can become much more destructive and because weapons can drastically increase the reach of a practitioner.
		Notable styles are Greco-Roman wrestling and Freestyle wrestling.
		Ninjutsu is a Japanese style said to have originally been practiced by Ninja; this martial art combines traditional attacks with scout style survival and elusive moves.
	www.barehands.com (7850 words)

	THE NATIVE AMERICAN JOURNAL
		Currently, Native leaders are obtaining copies of their files and discovering a new revelation: Police spy files exist on Native Americans across America, from Portland to New York.
		Native American society, as well as many others, forbid women to partake in ceremonies for that reason.
		Americans are entitled to certain rights which are guaranteed to us by the constitution and further defined by the Bill Of Rights.
	members.tripod.com /~susanbates/nativeamericanjrnl-index.html (10843 words)

	Native Americans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Music and dance was confined to the native world or offered in tourist attractions as an illustration of a lifestyle unknown to many people.
		Today the Indian arts have been "discovered," and a large cross section of humanity is enjoying its intrinsic excellence, vitality, originality and tradition they offer to the heart and head.
		For centuries native peoples have gathered together and engaged in ceremonial and celebratory dance.
	www.thewildwest.org /native_american/art (696 words)

	★ Books by John Bierhorst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the 15th to 19th centuries, their populations were decimated, by the privations of displacement, by disease, and in many cases by warfare with European groups and enslavement by them.The first Native American group encountered by Columbus, the 250,000 Arawaks of Haiti, were violently enslaved.
		Plecker pressured local governments into reclassifying all Native Americans in the state as "colored", leading to massive destruction of records on the states Native American community.Even beyond the grave, Plecker is still haunting the states Native American community.
		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.booksearchbyisbn.com /476459_john-burningham_0394874846123schoolpublishers.html (3030 words)

	Native American Support Group of New York City
		Native Hawaiians launch canoe in Potomac - On July 18, the Friends of Hokule’a and Hawai’iloa were joined by the National Museum of the American Indian in launching the 18-foot canoe in the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. Shinnecock land claim draws wide press, but most miss point
		Native American music, news, entertainment, interviews and discussions of the current issues in Indian Country and the world.
		The winner in the Native American category was Sacred Ground: A Tribute to Mother Earth, produced by Jim Wilson.
	graywolf94.tripod.com (2537 words)

	Amazon.com: Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools : The Complete Guide to Making and Using ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Survival Skills of the North American Indians by Peter Goodchild
		Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, And Survival Tools is the definitive instructional guide to making Native American tools and weapons.
		Author Monte Burch takes the reader through all the steps of the basic flint knapping of arrowheads and scrapers to the most complex decorating and finishing techniques of painting and fletching.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/159228020X?v=glance (786 words)

	Native American Arts-resources
		The Two-Spirit Tradition - an essay on shamanism and male love in Native American religion.
		http://www.bearcanyongalleries.com - member of IACA, Native Arts and Crafts service representing different tribes in the Southwest.
		This online resource provides a unique selection of Native American hand-crafted high-quality artwork and jewelry.
	www.native-american-art-secrets.com /resources.html (345 words)

	NativeRadio Your portal to the beauty and mystery of Native American Music
		By the end of this year's hunt, more than 300,000 baby seals will have been brutally killed—many, incredibly, as young as 12 days old.
		The Humane Society of the United States is on the front lines in Canada, reporting and videotaping events as they unfold and fighting to halt this atrocity.
		Seal hunters call them "beaters"—seal pups who are at least two weeks old.
	www.nativeradio.com (371 words)

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