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Native Spirit
Native American Herbal Medicine
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Desecration In The Name of Progress

Native American Magazines

Long Chain of Abuses
Since 1787, over 750 land cessions have been authorized by supposed mutual compacts. History demostrates there was little that was mutual about these "treaties."
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Native American Names
Europeans at Jamestown misunderstand meaning of Native American languages. Pocahontas only a nickname. Caddos name Texas.
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Happy Fathers Day + Multi-Cultural Fluting
Article on multi-cultural flutes and flute music
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Is NAGPRA Emptying Museums?
A recent article argued that Native American tribes are reclaiming a large percentage of museum collections in the US. Is NAGPRA really emptying U.S. museums out?
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MINORITY MUSEUMS Part I - Native Americans by Mary Haegele
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Native American Medicine: A Herbal Heritage
Suite101 column description: Herb Gardening is a bi-weekly column on growing, harvesting herbs; culinary, medicinal and crafting uses.
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Pagan Symbol of Hope
The Morning Star is a symbol of hope for the Pennsylvania Deutsch and Native Americans followers of Pagan traditions.
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Sites on Flute Making
Sites on building flutes
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Vision Quest
A bit of fiction about dreams and the Vision Quest.
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Native Spirit Part II
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Stick Games and more!
There are so many holidays coming up in the next couple of months that in order to try and cover them with optimal time left for which to use them, this and recent articles have had a trifold approach. This article will be divided into three sections. Halloween, even though it's not a holiday, it is an activity-filled children's festivity. The second section will be oriented around November activities, involving American Indian dances and stick games. The third section will offer some links for Christmas activities and Hannukah celebrations.
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Catch That Bunny! Hide Those Eggs!
A whimsical look at Easter eggs, bunnies and basketry and other Easter finery in the garden.
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Cherokee Alphabet
Sequoyah, for many years, works on his alphabet. When it is finished it is so simple that everyone, including the children, in his tribe learns it.
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Daring Women
A list taken by a postcard book, "Women Who Dared," revisits brave women from all walks of life who made a positive difference in the lives of women and men.
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Petroglyphs at China Lake, CA
Petroglyphs are images pecked into large boulders by the use of rocks and hammer stones. These images were left by the shamans after their spiritual vision quests.
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Potatoes and Tobacco from America
Sir George Weymouth captures five Native Americans. He takes them back to England. Potatoes and tobacco from the New World are introduced to England.
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Powhatan and the Roanoke Settlers
Powhatan was the chief of a federation of Algonquian Indian tribes who lived in the tidewater region of Virginia. His rule may hold a clue to the disappearance of the wh
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Powhatan's Tribes Teach Settlers
Jamestown lacked men who knew how to farm. Powhatan's people show them how to plant and catch fish in exchange for metal for hatchets, glass beads and copper.
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Repatriation – A Passing Fad?
Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum in London was recently quoted as saying, "Repatriation is yesterday’s question . . ." The number of high-profile and s
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Sequoyah of the Cherokee
Sequoyah and his friends wonder how the white people obtained the “Talking Leaves," that they call books.
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Smith Convinces Settlers to Work
Some of the Jamestown "gentlemen" refuse to work. John Smith tells them that if they don't work they will not eat. The London Company makes harsh demands. Smith is nearly
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Squanto the Treaty Maker
Squanto helps arrange a treaty between the people of Plymouth and the Pokanokets and Nemaskets. The Nemaskets revolt because of the treaty and capture Squanto.
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The Caddos Name Texas
In 1691, the Spanish reached the temple mound site of the Caddos in Texas and were welcomed by greeting of "tejas," a Caddo word meaning "friends."
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The New World/Pocahontas
The New World or Disney's Pocahontas: Which One Got It Right?
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The US/Canada Border
The influence of European settlers to Aboriginals along the US-Canadian Border
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Canadian Residential Schools
A legacy of physical and sexual abuse of Aboriginal students in religious-run residential schools has come to light in recent court cases.
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Carlisle Indian Industrial School
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the first Indian boarding/residential school, starts a controversial program of assimilating natives into the white man's culture
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Ceremonial Music
From weddings to funerals, from Bar Mitzvahs to birthdays, from graduations to inaugurations, music makes our moments more memorable.
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Slaughter of the Innocents... Again

Squanto Goes Home
Squanto, after five years absence, comes home to find that his native land has undergone disastrous changes beyond any he could have imagined. Again, he is captured, this
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Susquehanna River
The river dates back to the Paleozoic Era and is a geologist's dream. It acted as a transportation corridor, and has provided the backdrop for countless historic events.
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The Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange--the exchange of European products to the Americas and vice-versa--invites discussion and evokes controversy to this day.
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Indigenous Mathematic Systems
Our right to maintain ancient and sophisticated mathematical systems has been extinguished by Western assumptions about "primitive logic".
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JUMPIN' JUNIPERS!
Is the juniper the answer to all your wildscaping problems? Probably not, but there's a lot to recommend this overused native plant!
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Kennewick on TIME Cover
Kennewick Man made the March 13, 2006 cover of TIME. How fairly did they represent the Native American perspective on the controversy?
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NeoPaganism – Old and New World
Druids are Pagans. Originally, the term meant country dweller. It evolved to mean those who did not practice the JudeoChristian Tradition.
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Slaughter of the Innocents…. Again

United through Music!
Multicultural education is a transformative movement in education which produces critically thinking, socially active members of society. It is not simply a change of curriculum or the addition of an activity. It is a movement which calls for new attitudes, new approaches, and a new dedication to laying the foundation for the transformation of society
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Wonderful Wintergreen
Wonderful, wonderful wintergreen.
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Cherokee and Slavery
Review of the history of slavery in the Cherokee Nation.
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A Different Kind of Breakfast
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Indigenous Knowledge Theft
European science and technology, supposedly what sets the west apart from more "savage" peoples, is merely knowledge stolen from Indigenous peoples throughout history.
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Powhatan's Kingdom
Powhatan's first proven contact with whites came in 1607, when Jamestown was established a few miles from Powhatan's capital of Werowocomoco. He attempted to control the
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Weaving a World
Alma Alexander talks about writing and her new young adult fantasy novel, THE GIFT OF THE UNMAGE.
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**Mistletoe Magic**
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A New Twist on Reservation Gambling

Chief Crazy Horse
An informative look at the life, times and death of this brave Native-American chieftain whose name is forever linked with that of General George Armstrong Custer
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