• Brewington was certain of the fact that tribes in the mixed confederacy around Robeson County in North Carolina included descendants of the famous Lost Colony. (dnaconsultants.com)
  • The Cayuga (Cayuga: Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ, 'People of the Great Swamp') are one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), a confederacy of Native Americans in New York. (geni.com)
  • The Abenaki (also called "Abanaki" or "Abnaki") were part of the Wabanaki Confederacy of five Algonquian-speaking tribes that existed from the mid-1600s to the mid-1800s. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Some historians believe that the ancestors of the tribes making up the Abenaki confederacy first arrived in North America about three thousand years ago. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The social worker reported: 'Notice ( [DSS form] Soc 319) was sent to the three Cherokee tribes on 7/19/2002. (narf.org)
  • RÉSUMÉ Afin de déterminer les valeurs normales de la fonction respiratoire des Soudanais, une étude transversale, randomisée et stratifiée a été réalisée entre 2002 et 2005, auprès de 2250 personnes en bonne santé âgées de 7 à 86 ans. (who.int)
  • On May 14, 1997, G.C.C. issued a memorandum to all HEART members informing them that requests for acquiring or maintaining existing articles of Native American faith will only be considered for those prisoners who are bona fide Native Americans. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • As to "writing multicultural America" the measures have been equally many, whether Henry Louis Gates's Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992) as working tour d'horizon, or Ishmael Reed's Multi-America: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace (1998), an anthology given over to a changed and still changing America's literary-cultural regimen. (iafor.org)
  • The North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) Race and Ethnicity Identifier Assessment Project confirmed the importance of publishing cancer rates by race and ethnicity (specifically, Hispanic origin). (cdc.gov)
  • The Data Visualizations tool presents cancer incidence and mortality data for all races combined and by race and ethnicity (non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native, non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, and Hispanic). (cdc.gov)
  • Due to a coding issue reported by North Dakota and Wisconsin after data submission, state- and county-specific counts and rates by race and ethnicity are not presented for North Dakota. (cdc.gov)
  • However, the Europeans who first came to North America depended on the more numerous and better-adapted Indigenous people for survival, which led to trading and military alliances. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Though suspicious of the foreigners, many of the Abenaki tribes engaged in fur trade with Europeans, especially the French and the British. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. (cdlib.org)
  • Similar proclamations, under variants on the name (including "Native American Heritage Month" and "National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month") have been issued each year since 1994. (dctc.edu)
  • He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington. (wikipedia.org)
  • He is a citizen of the Spokane Tribe of the Spokane Reservation and grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. (wikipedia.org)
  • His father, Sherman Joseph Alexie, was a citizen of the Coeur D'Alene Tribe, and his mother, Lillian Agnes Cox, who was Spokane and also of Colville, Choctaw, and European American ancestry. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sherman Alexie, whose ancestry transcends the Spokane and Coeur d'Alene American native tribes (he has European and Russian ancestry too), is a well-rounded polymath. (bookseriesinorder.com)
  • Other contextual cross-argument can look to, say, Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus (1999), conservative misgivings at alleged cultural balkanization and pc, and at a counter-reach, Desmond King's Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of Diverse Democracy (2000), the case for salutation of transnational cultural America. (iafor.org)
  • There is an abiding tradition among these people that their ancestors were the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island, amalgamated with the Five Civilized Tribes of Eastern North Carolina. (dnaconsultants.com)
  • The British tried to establish a colony on Abenaki land in 1607, but, partly because of hostile encounters with the tribes, the settlement lasted less than a year. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The social worker also reported that responses had been received from two of the tribes--the United Keetoowah *1423 Band and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians--'stat[ing] that the [minor] **18 is not eligible for enrollment. (narf.org)
  • Rev. Stat. 213.01-.137 (1996). (sciendo.com)
  • Additional data from the Indian subcontinent and Arabic, Polynesian and Latin American countries, as well as Africa will further improve these equations in the future. (ersjournals.com)
  • It is impossible to point out one particular tribe of Indians as their sole ancestors. (dnaconsultants.com)
  • Establishing a Native American pedigree for Kennewick Man would also add to growing evidence that ancestors of the New World's indigenous people originated in Siberia and migrated across a land mass that spanned the Bering Strait during the last ice age. (tulalipnews.com)
  • Identity politics was to have its long-overdue redress, ethnic, feminist, gay, disabled: no pre-emptive one America but multi-America. (iafor.org)
  • After discarding 23,572 records, mostly because they could not be combined with other ethnic or geographic groups, reference equations were derived for healthy individuals aged 3-95 yrs for Caucasians (n=57,395), African-Americans (n=3,545), and North (n=4,992) and South East Asians (n=8,255). (ersjournals.com)
  • The ence population provide a baseline for current study will provide the only ethnic background was established evaluating the pulmonary function of a large-scale data for eastern and central on a regional basis as specific tribes are subject, based usually on the person's Africa. (who.int)
  • of the Bureau of the Census' 1996 Annual Research Conference (1996). (sciendo.com)
  • To accomplish this, the prisoners had to show they were on a tribal roll, have a relative who is a Native American, or have a Bureau of Indian Affairs card. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Coolidge issued a proclamation on September 28, 1915, which declared the second Saturday of each May as an American Indian Day and contained the first formal appeal for recognition of Indians as citizens. (dctc.edu)
  • Each comes freighted in offence and defence, embattlement, and in few greater contexts than the American 1960s as change-era with, in its turn, the ensuing so-called Culture Wars. (iafor.org)
  • The researchers performing the DNA analysis "feel that Kennewick has normal, standard Native American genetics," according to a 2013 email to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is responsible for the care and management of the bones. (tulalipnews.com)
  • The father contends that 'reversal and remand is required because the trial court failed to properly notify the tribes, appellant, and the Secretary of the Interior of the pendency of the proceedings. (narf.org)
  • Detail from the Annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 1925. (voanews.com)
  • Frequently enough "America" is taken to incorporate Canada (it would be intriguing to imagine the reverse) though not the wider hemisphere of the Americas, both Latin or South America and the Caribbean. (iafor.org)
  • The 1901 Course of Study for the Indian Schools reflects the federal mission to turn Native Americans into farmers and housekeepers: Children were to spend half the day in classrooms, learning basic reading, writing and arithmetic, and spend the remainder of the day working in kitchens, fields, blacksmith shops or print shops. (voanews.com)
  • The social worker's report for the section 366.26 hearing disclosed that Gregory N. 'may be eligible for enrollment in the Cherokee tribe. (narf.org)
  • The five "civilized" Indian tribes with whom the Croatans "amalgamated" are named as the Cherokee, Tuscarora, Meherrin, Waccamaw and Saponi (Haliwah). (dnaconsultants.com)
  • The Four Moons ballet, with a score by Cherokee-Quapaw composer Louis Ballard Sr., was danced in 1967 at the second Oklahoma Indian Ballerina Festival with four of the ballerinas. (artdaily.com)
  • One of the greatest controversies surrounding Elizabeth Warren is her claim to be Native American, specifically Cherokee and/or Delaware. (elizabethwarrenwiki.org)
  • His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Post- Confederation Canadian Indigenous policy initially was based on a model of assimilation, with one of its main instruments being the Indian Act . (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Over time, because of my own Native American ancestry (Mohawk), I have particularly enjoyed the opportunity to work with indigenous American children, whose expression of rheumatic disease and treatment response are slightly different from the broader population. (buffalo.edu)
  • I also spend considerable time working with indigenous American communities on a broad range of child health issues. (buffalo.edu)
  • I served as chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Native American Child Health, and continue to be involved in advocacy efforts for indigenous children. (buffalo.edu)
  • Alexie, who is a quinquagenarian, was born in October 1966 in an Indian reservation. (bookseriesinorder.com)
  • We will spotlight members of our community and share information and resources to learn more about Native American cultures, identities, and ongoing legacies. (pitzer.edu)
  • At the time of data collection, the school enrollment was 513 students, representing 83 federally recognized tribes and 22 state recognized tribes. (unm.edu)
  • Of European and Anishinaabe ancestry, Robin is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. (esf.edu)
  • Therefore, incidence and/or mortality data published in this report may be underestimated for Asian and Pacific Islander, American Indian and Alaska Native, and Hispanic people, possibly due to racial and Hispanic origin misclassification. (cdc.gov)
  • That is: there would be an agreed or institutional America, compositely Anglo, English-speaking, Christian, hetero, and whatever the romance of a frontier and farm nation replete in nuclear family and the comforts of suburb and consumer goods. (iafor.org)
  • With floodlights, Russian soldiers will ILLUMINATE the frontier waters of the Indian Ocean (Zhirinovsky ,1996, p. 68. (rferl.org)
  • This is the last story in a three-part series that explores the history of the federal Indian school on the Western side of the Navajo Nation in Arizona -- and a man who taught there and in other Indian schools for more than two decades. (voanews.com)
  • Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born," said Warren, who never mentioned her Native American heritage on the campaign trail even as she detailed much of her personal history to voters in speeches, statements and a video. (elizabethwarrenwiki.org)
  • With Countering Colonization , Carol Devens offers a well-documented, revisionary history of Native American women. (cdlib.org)
  • The polemic has gone back and forth, perhaps as symptomatically as anywhere in a pairing like Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind (1987), with its lament for threatened High Culture, as against Lawrence W. Levine's The Opening of The American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History (1996), with its call to embrace cultural width and plurality. (iafor.org)
  • In the history of Dominican Republic Laws enacted for the protection of the Indians (starting with the Laws of Burgos in 1512-13) were never fully implemented. (tboacademy.com)
  • Ethical clearance for the study reported no history of symptoms of Indians [4]. (who.int)
  • With his investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, Leland Donald makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area. (cdlib.org)
  • African American topics include material associated with MSA's Legacy of Slavery in Maryland project. (mvgenealogy.org)
  • www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/aboriginal-people-government-policy. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Today, Cayuga people belong to the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation in Ontario, and the federally recognized Cayuga Nation of New York and the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma. (geni.com)
  • In an America full of damaged Vietnam veterans, the book's message of healing and reconciliation between races and people made it both an immediate and a long-term success. (paperbackswap.com)
  • Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade because she hoped to meet other people with tribal roots. (elizabethwarrenwiki.org)
  • Heritage Month is also an opportune time to educate the general public about tribes, to raise a general awareness about the unique challenges Native people have faced both historically and in the present, and the ways in which tribal citizens have worked to conquer these challenges. (dctc.edu)
  • Now known as Chief Plenty Coups, the young boy came to be a great leader for his people, the Apsáalooke, or Crow tribe. (mtoutlaw.com)
  • The ensuing peace will be a significant geopolitical accomplishment, freeing a tremendous territory to be devoted to resorts and sanatoria that serve the industrial north and people of all nationalities (Zhirinovsky, 1996, pp. 49-50). (rferl.org)
  • Black and Hispanic Americans See Their Origins as Central to Who They Are, Less So for Whites , Pew Research Center, May 14, 2021. (sciendo.com)
  • three were Native American/white, two were black/white/Native American, three were Hispanic/white/Native American, and one were Hispanic/Native American. (unm.edu)
  • There is not a lot of empirical research that examines how schools influence the racial identity of multiracial students, in particular mixed-race students that identify as Native American. (unm.edu)
  • Never-before-published photos show federal Indian day school students posing in fields and orchards near Tuba City, Arizona, ca. 1912-1917. (voanews.com)
  • Although the conventional wisdom among students and faculty is that the Law School faculty includes no minority women, Chmura said Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren is Native American. (elizabethwarrenwiki.org)
  • Controversy flared over the skeleton almost from the moment in 1996 when two students stumbled across human bones near the Southeastern Washington town of Kennewick. (tulalipnews.com)
  • One of the most rewarding parts of my career has been the opportunity to mentor talented Native American students and assist them in developing their interests in science and medicine. (buffalo.edu)
  • Previous students include a veritable "Who's Who" among young Native American physicians, and I am working to establish and foster partnerships for UB with local colleges and tribes to develop a rich resource of Native American physician scientists in New York State. (buffalo.edu)
  • 22 miles from the reservation, and where Alexie was the only Native American student. (wikipedia.org)
  • He was inspired by reading works of poetry written by Native Americans. (wikipedia.org)
  • The blog Native Americans in Children's Literature has deleted or modified all references to Alexie. (wikipedia.org)
  • Jamie Oxendine (Lumbee Native American) of Toledo (left) and U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (right) during the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. (2004). (dnaconsultants.com)
  • All Native Americans withstanding the onslaught of the "scum of the Eastern Sea," as Tecumseh called whites, experience rapid, systematic admixture, violent cultural assault and traumatic identity loss. (dnaconsultants.com)
  • Adrianna (middle) awaits with a group of Native American women the results of the jury after dancing the Jingle Dress Dance during the annual Denver March Powwow. (netherlight.org)
  • Adrianna (middle) awaits with a group of Native American women the results of the jury. (netherlight.org)
  • A festival at the University of Oklahoma celebrates the impact of the ballerina on 20th century ballet, honoring her Native American heritage. (artdaily.com)
  • It was a festival created to honor five Native American ballerinas, all hailing from Oklahoma. (artdaily.com)
  • It was the first time, as professionals, they would represent their own stories as Native American women on the stage. (artdaily.com)
  • Audiences loved The Four Moons, but some critics stumbled over its convergence of Native American themes and classical ballet, seemingly surprised by a traditional pas de quatre instead of a corn dance or sun dance, as The Saturday Review put it. (artdaily.com)
  • To us, to Osages, there s a direct silence about Native America, Tinker Smith said. (artdaily.com)
  • While the Native Americans were away from their New England territory, white settlers took over the land. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon on March 5, 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) to Leland Howard Marmon (a photographer) and Mary Virginia Leslie, is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second wave of what Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance . (paperbackswap.com)
  • Silko is 1/4 Laguna Pueblo Native American (a Keres speaking tribe), the rest of her ancestry being Anglo American and Mexican American. (paperbackswap.com)
  • It was largely on the strength of this work that critic Alan Velie named Silko one of his Four Native American Literary Masters , along with N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor and James Welch. (paperbackswap.com)
  • Sherman Alexie could be fronting for Native Americans if his credentials, impressive achievements, and mind-blowing accolades are anything to go by. (bookseriesinorder.com)
  • These characters, who are impoverished Native Americans and were raised in an Indian reservation, are up-and-coming rock musicians angling for rock music stardom. (bookseriesinorder.com)
  • Join Pitzer College as we honor and encourage the study, observance, and celebration of Native American heritage. (pitzer.edu)
  • This definition does not state the extent of the characteristic in order for it to be abnormal, for example we could class the Native Americans who perform the sun dance (a ritual which involves ripping ropes out of the chests of dancers) as abnormal as we would experience discomfort from watching this behaviour, whilst Native Americans take great joy in this activity and it us used as part of their celebrations. (buthowto.com)
  • This study was conducted at a tribal college in New Mexico with selected mixed-race participants who identified as Native American, or acknowledged Native American ancestry. (unm.edu)
  • This integrative course examines the management of natural resources and environmental problem- solving from a Native American perspective. (esf.edu)
  • The issue of whether Warren falsely claimed to be Native American was raised during her campaign for United States Senate in 2012, and is an important part of her public political persona because of evidence that the claim was unfounded. (elizabethwarrenwiki.org)
  • Harvard Law School currently has only one tenured minority woman, Gottlieb Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren, who is Native American. (elizabethwarrenwiki.org)
  • In none of the public interviews [4] or testimony she gave prior to that point had Warren revealed that she was Native American. (elizabethwarrenwiki.org)
  • In the introductory campaign video explaining "Who I Am," [5] Warren did not mention being Native American. (elizabethwarrenwiki.org)
  • When confronted by reporters, Warren claimed not to know why Harvard [6] was promoting her as Native American, and said that she only learned of it by reading the newspaper reports. (elizabethwarrenwiki.org)
  • These are my family stories, I have lived in a family that has talked about Native American and talked about tribes since I was a little girl. (elizabethwarrenwiki.org)
  • That explanation did not make sense [15] because the AALS faculty directory only listed Warren as "minority," not as "Native American," so putting herself on that list was not a way to meet other Native Americans. (elizabethwarrenwiki.org)
  • In fact, when Warren was a Harvard Law School faculty member, she was invited three times to speak to Harvard's Native American student group and never accepted [16] . (elizabethwarrenwiki.org)
  • Lohse's mother has Native American and Filipino ancestry and his father has German ancestry. (escuelahostelera.com)
  • Genetic analysis is still under way in Denmark, but documents obtained through the federal Freedom of Information Act say preliminary results point to a Native American heritage. (tulalipnews.com)
  • At present there is no indication he has a different origin than North American Native American. (tulalipnews.com)
  • But other experts said deeper genetic sequencing is unlikely to overturn the basic determination that Kennewick Man's closest relatives are Native Americans. (tulalipnews.com)
  • DNA has been recovered from only a handful of so-called Paleoamericans - those whose remains are older than 9,000 years - but almost all of them have shown strong genetic ties with modern Native Americans, he pointed out. (tulalipnews.com)
  • Bothell archaeologist James Chatters, the first scientist to examine the skeleton, said the skull looked "Caucasoid," not Native American. (tulalipnews.com)
  • A facial reconstruction that bore a striking resemblance to Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (actor Patrick Stewart) of the television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation," further inflamed members of local tribes, who argued that the remains were rightfully theirs under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. (tulalipnews.com)
  • Owsley, the lead author, told Northwest tribal members in 2012 that he remains convinced Kennewick Man was not Native American. (tulalipnews.com)
  • In an interview last week, Owsley explained that he bases that conclusion on the shape of the skull, which doesn't look anything like the skulls of modern Native Americans. (tulalipnews.com)
  • That wouldn't preclude the possibility of some distant, shared ancestry with Native Americans, he added. (tulalipnews.com)
  • Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. (cdlib.org)
  • The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has held that prison officials' denial of Native American religious items to a non-Native American prisoner based solely upon his race violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Virginia prisoner Gary David Morrison, Jr., filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against officials at the Greensville Correctional Center (G.C.C.). Morrison is not a Native American by birth, nor has he been adopted by a Native American Tribe. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Most of its members are not Native Americans and do not practice any particular tribe-based religion. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Nor do they participate in Native American ceremonies. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Morrison practices what he terms "Native American Spirituality. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • To practice this religion Morrison wished to possess a number of the same sacred items as Native Americans receive to practice their tribal-based religions. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Morrison's request for Native American faith articles was denied for lack of appropriate racial lineage. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • The Court held that although it may be constitutional to deny Native American faith articles in their entirety because they are dangerous or susceptible to abuse, prison officials did not deny Morrison the articles on security concerns. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Morrison was purposefully and intentionally treated differently from Native American prisoners who sincerely possess beliefs virtually identical to those held by Morrison. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • The district court's order enjoining defendants from refusing Morrison a religious exemption from existing property restrictions solely on the basis of his lack of membership in the Native American race was affirmed. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • The name of the state comes from the Native American word Iliniwek, meaning "men. (britannica.com)
  • November is National Native American Heritage Month, or as the event is commonly titled, American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month . (dctc.edu)
  • Presently, several states have designated Columbus Day as Native American Day, but it continues to be a day we observe without any recognition as a national legal holiday. (dctc.edu)
  • The flat grassland that the 19th-century settlers called the Prairie State has been transformed into a vital section of the North American continent. (britannica.com)
  • For purposes of the ICWA, ' 'Indian child' means any unmarried person who is under age eighteen and is either (a) a member of an Indian tribe or (b) is eligible for membership in an Indian tribe and is the biological child of a member of an Indian tribe. (narf.org)
  • There are schools that if they were looking for a minority faculty member, would go to that list and might say, 'I didn't know Elizabeth Warren was a minority,' " said George Mason University Law professor David Bernstein, a former chairman of the American Association of Law Schools. (elizabethwarrenwiki.org)
  • Clint Brown was a member of the Cleveland Indians starting staff for four years before a broken wrist sidelined him in 1934. (sabr.org)
  • As always in America, race is not merely a topic of abstract curiosity. (sciendo.com)
  • Contrary to The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) that includes discrimination based on caste, most Indian-Americans argue that race is not caste . (riazhaq.com)
  • It shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Japan to the northeast, Palau to the east and southeast, Indonesia to the south, Malaysia to the southwest, Vietnam to the west, and China to the northwest. (agreatertown.com)
  • If that conclusion holds up, it would be a dramatic end to a debate that polarized the field of anthropology and set off a legal battle between scientists who sought to study the 9,500-year-old skeleton and Northwest tribes that sought to rebury it as an honored ancestor. (tulalipnews.com)
  • After eight years of litigation, a federal appeals court ruled in 2004 that Kennewick Man's extreme age made it impossible to establish a clear link to any existing Northwest tribes. (tulalipnews.com)
  • The surface of the land slopes gently downward from north to south, with the hilliest area in the northwest. (britannica.com)
  • While the US has no specific law against the Indian caste system, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing has filed the lawsuit against Cisco using a section of America's historic Civil Rights Act which bars race-based discrimination . (riazhaq.com)
  • The Colorado River Indian Tribes, or "CRIT" as they are commonly called, occupy nearly 270,000 acres of reservation land in both Arizona and California, with some 90 miles of Colorado River shoreline. (parkerareachamberofcommerce.com)
  • In November 1928, Patterson told a Senate subcommittee on Indian Affairs that children at the Tuba City school were served bread, coffee and syrup for breakfast and bread and boiled potatoes at midday dinner and supper. (voanews.com)
  • At the first Oklahoma Indian Ballerina Festival, in 1957, its founder, Moscelyne Larkin, danced Myrtha in Act Two of Giselle and Maria Tallchief performed an excerpt from Swan Lake. (artdaily.com)
  • Jack Larkin details the ordinary concerns of most Americans during the period of 1790-1840. (mvgenealogy.org)
  • Congress passed the ICWA in 1978 'to promote the stability and security of Indian tribes and families by establishing minimum standards for removal of Indian children from their families and placement of such children 'in foster or adoptive homes which will reflect the unique values of Indian culture. (narf.org)
  • Have the bulwarks, the very sinew, of expressive American culture come under threat or is a new dispensation long overdue with time called on elitism, self-privileging cultural status? (iafor.org)
  • Kroeber and Kluckhohn's definition represents a summary of what American anthropologists and social scientists would call culture in the 1940s and 1950s. (iresearchnet.com)
  • As useful a point of departure as any might well be, is the term America itself. (iafor.org)
  • Brewington was a strong original spokesman for American Indian heritage, but he was more. (dnaconsultants.com)
  • In 1990, President George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating November 1990 "National American Indian Heritage Month. (dctc.edu)
  • Learn more by visiting National American Heritage Month . (dctc.edu)
  • At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. (cdlib.org)
  • It's not clear, though, whether the upcoming study will provide tribes the legal ammunition they need to reclaim what they call "The Ancient One. (tulalipnews.com)
  • The association directed its president, Reverend Sherman Coolidge , an Arapaho Indian, to call upon the country to observe such a day. (dctc.edu)
  • Think of the "face" of America, be it the founding patriarchs, or First Families from George and Martha Washington to, say, the Bushes, father and sons. (iafor.org)
  • His 'geopolitical theory,' said to have been developed at 'an early age'--or what he calls the 'Zhirinovsky Formula'--has at its core a 'clear premise,' namely that 'the salvation of the Russian nation lies in 'the last bid for the South'--an opening for Russia to the shores of the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea' (Zhirinovsky, 1996, p. 48). (rferl.org)
  • And Russian soldiers will themselves come to a stop on the shore of the warm Indian Ocean, establishing there new outposts, settlements, resorts and sentries. (rferl.org)
  • American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today - hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land claims, and reservation gambling hold our attention. (cdlib.org)
  • Muslims also face employment discrimination in some of the workplaces dominated by Indian managers. (riazhaq.com)
  • What makes America great is, therefore, less about productivity than about population, less about Google and Stanford than about babies and immigrants. (counter-currents.com)
  • Gibraltar of the West will settle any doubts if you still don't believe that America is the true old world, since this post covers a variety of old-world topics such as the Garden of Eden, Noah's Ark, the Fountian of Youth, Ethiopia, Atlantis, Ancient Egypt, Assyria, etc, so please do enjoy and I thank you for your time. (americaistheoldworld.com)
  • Yes, Carolana (Carolina) was once a vast Country, and it is part of Grand or Superior Turkey, since we know that North and South Carolina (Kara-lana) in America was ancient Turkey. (americaistheoldworld.com)
  • It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean and consists of around 7,641 islands that are broadly categorized under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. (agreatertown.com)
  • When the fighting in the South finally ends, America will be more secure against the communist, Islamic and pan-Islamic threat. (rferl.org)
  • Back in 2009, there was a religious discrimination lawsuit filed against Vigai, a South Indian restaurant in Silicon Valley. (riazhaq.com)
  • Balaguer remained in power for the following 30 years, until his mandate was cut short in 1996 due to the United States' reaction to rigged elections. (tboacademy.com)
  • In 1987, he dropped out of Gonzaga and enrolled in Washington State University (WSU), where he took a creative writing course taught by Alex Kuo, a respected poet of Chinese-American background. (wikipedia.org)
  • The year before this proclamation was issued, Red Fox James , a Blackfoot Indian, rode horseback from state to state seeking approval for a day to honor Indians. (dctc.edu)
  • The first American Indian Day in a state was declared on the second Saturday in May 1916 by the governor of New York. (dctc.edu)
  • To have these women of color, representing not just American Indians, but America, on the ballet stage was profound. (artdaily.com)
  • Hundreds of years ago, the largest city north of Mexico was at Cahokia, now in Illinois. (britannica.com)
  • The Cayuga Nation has a maternal ancestry, which means Cayuga mothers will have children of her same clan. (geni.com)
  • The Tano, an Arawakan tribe, called the eastern portion of the island Quisqueya (Kiskeya), which means "mother of all places. (tboacademy.com)
  • Over two-thirds of low caste Indian-Americans are discriminated against by upper caste Indian-Americans in Silicon Valley, according to a report by Equality Labs, an organization of Dalits in America. (riazhaq.com)