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This Internet site was created in the hope that all people, no matter what their own culture, may be able to find a bit of information that might be helpful in the understanding of American Indian Culture and other Native Cultures from all over our Mother which is called Earth!
Native People’s Cultures are as diverse as nature, but with good reason! Nature is our teacher and guide for walking the path of life! The Native Cultures teach that it is the human species responsibility to take care of our Mother! Only appreciation is asked, for what she gives us, in return for her care!
Progress is a wonderful thing! If we can keep some of the beliefs from the First People’s Cultures, that are alive and well, incorporated with the technology that leads to progress, it may help all peoples to live in a more harmonious world not only with Nature but with each other as well!
It is time to Celebrate and Appreciate the Diversity in the Human Species as we do in Nature! The rose is beautiful, but how long would its beauty be appreciated if it was the only species of flower we had to enjoy! It does not matter what name the Creator goes by or if you believe in one, many or none at all! The experience of a storm, rainbow, or just the sun rising and setting tells us there is a much Greater Power that speaks to all cultures and this Power that we call Nature survives because of diversity!
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Cherokee Domestic Crafts – Pottery
Cherokee Culture Notes Edited and Revised: August 27, 2000 Fact Sheet Author Unknown Edited by: Wendell Cochran, Tahlequah, OK Domestic Crafts ~ Pottery Mooney, ca. 1888, and Harrington, ca. 1908, described the Cherokee method for making clay pottery. The following...
Cherokee Word List D
English to Cherokee ~ Words and Phrases Beginning with "D" Daily - Tsugitsvnvda Dairy - Waga Diganegiedi Damage - Uyotsvhi Damaged - Ayostanvhi Damp - Gadulida Dance - Alasgida Danced - Unalasgisv Dances - Danalasgisgv Dancing - Analasgisgv Danger - Ganiyegi Dangerous...
Paths to Changing News
Paths to Changing News! Original Web Source, for North American Indian Headline News, Online since 1995! Master Gardeners: Benefiting from how Native Americans cared for the land By Jeanne Price, IJ correspondent Published Marin IJ Saturday, 27 November 2010 GIAGO: A...
The View From The Hogan XI – The sound little eagles make
Ya'a'tee Things are starting to quiet down round here now, so I have had the chance to read the local papers from the past month or so, and am somewhat disturbed by some of the propaganda being churned out by the Hopi Tribal Council. Most of it is simply transparent,...
Canyon Song ~ Poem By Judi Armbruster
ICWA Legislative Summary – 1996
Written by David Simmons National Indian Child Welfare Association, Staff Member The Congress began with renewed attacks on the ICWA from House of Representatives members Deborah Pryce (OH-R) and Todd Tiahrt (KS-R). Both introduced stand alone bills, H.R. 3156 and...
Cherokee Clothing and Adornment
Cherokee Culture Notes Edited and Revised: August 27, 2000 Fact Sheet Author Unknown Edited by: Wendell Cochran, Tahlequah, OK Cherokee Clothing and Adornment The earliest description of southeastern Indian costumes might apply to the Cherokee was written by Adair (p....
Cherokee Word List I
English to Cherokee ~ Words and Phrases Beginning with "I" Ice - Unesdala Ice Cream - Agadatlvda unesdala Idea - Adanvtedi Ideal - Ulilohi Idealize - Galvquododiyi Ideals - Tsulilohi Ideas - Adanvtesgv Idiot - Golagi nigesvna Idle - Gohusdi nadvnehvna Idol - Unelanvhi...
Resolution of the 5th Annual Meeting of the Tradition Elders Circle
Northern Cheyenne Nation, Two Moons' Camp Rosebud Creek, Montana October 5, 1980 It has been brought to the attention of the Elders and their representatives in Council that various individuals are moving about this Great Turtle Island and across the great waters to...
How Effective Was Navajo Code?
"One Former Captive Knows" By Tim Korte, Sanostee, New Mexico By the close of World War II, Army Sgt. Joe Kieyoomia shared something with the secret words employed by the Navajo Code Talkers: both were like granite against Japanese efforts to break them. Captured...
Monestersky Loses Appeal In the Hopi Appellate Court
On June 27, 2002, the Hopi Appellate Court affirmed the decision of the Hopi Tribal Court in Monestersky v. Hopi, thereby upholding the Order of Exclusion issued by the Chairman of the Hopi Tribe against Monestersky. Monestersky was permanently excluded from the Hopi...
Big Mountain Press Conference Called To Address the Destruction of Sacred Sundance Site at Big Mountain, Arizona
Due to the crisis resulting from the destruction of a sacred sundance site, Camp Anna Mae at Big Mountain, Arizona, and continuing threats being made against the civil and religious rights of the people involved in those spiritual ceremonies, a panel of civil,...
Destruction of the Sundance Tree
I want to communicate with you on behalf of myself and the Sundancers who exercise their beliefs here in Big Mountain. I want to tell you what is happening to us in the millennium years. By now you must have heard about the desecration and destruction of the Sundance...
Desecration of Sacred Sundance Ground
BIG MOUNTAIN, AZ - Today (8-17-01) at approximately 5:00 a.m., the Office of Hopi Lands, Hopi Range Management, Resource Enforcement Services, Hopi Tribal Police, Navajo County Sheriff, and BIA impoundment trailers entered Camp Ana Mae, a sacred religious area located...
View From The Hogan XVIII – Notes and comments on Big Mountain
Ya'a'tee I have occasionally received criticisms that these writings of mine are too lengthy. Without wishing to go into a critique of "sound-bite" culture, or a discussion of the difference between being informed and being well informed, I thought I'd offer both a...
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