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South America6
  • A recent article concerning newly discovered DNA linking both the native tribes of North and South America with a common ancestral thread sparked my interest. (pencilstubs.com)
  • In fact, we have people in the American Indian Project and various Native haplogroup projects who match each other with either Native Y or mitochondrial results who are tribally enrolled or descended from tribes from very different parts of the Americas, as far distant as Canada and South America. (dna-explained.com)
  • They were one of the Arawak peoples of South America, and the Taíno language was a member of the Arawakan language family of northern South America. (vazenterprises.com)
  • The Taíno were historically enemies of the neighboring Carib tribes, another group with origins in South America, who lived principally in the Lesser Antilles. (vazenterprises.com)
  • For much of the 15th century, the Taíno tribe was being driven to the northeast in the Caribbean (out of what is now South America) because of raids by the Carib. (vazenterprises.com)
  • The Arawakan language family is made up of languages that were present throughout the Caribbean, and much of Central and South America. (vazenterprises.com)
Central America2
  • Recently more research has been revealed concerning Mongolian links to the Hopi elders and the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico extending all the way South into Mexico and to Central America. (finalcall.com)
  • Thus writes author Frank Waters in his "Book of the Hopi," "There is further evidence that there were Mongolian immigrations into Mexico and Central America touching upon the Toltecs, Naule, Mayan and Olmec family groups with a central location in the states of Guatemala and Chiapas. (finalcall.com)
Tribe21
  • To qualify for aid based on your Native American ancestry , you must be a member of a federally recognized tribe . (maryville.edu)
  • Once your membership status is confirmed, the tribe issues a tribal I.D. card or writes an official letter. (maryville.edu)
  • Nakai knew this might be difficult: As far as she was aware, no one from her North Carolina tribe - the Lumbee - had ever been granted such preference. (mixedracestudies.org)
  • Responding to Nakai the following month, tribal government specialist Chandra Joseph informed her that the Lumbee were not a federally recognized tribe and therefore couldn't receive any federal benefits, including "Indian preference. (mixedracestudies.org)
  • If I had an Indian Head cent or buffalo nickel for every person claiming a connection to the Cherokee tribe, I'd be filthy rich. (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • However, the majority of people just can't find that connection to the Cherokee or any other tribe (and you can read my blog Native American Is Not That Into You to explore reasons why). (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • This person was not interested in joining the Cherokee tribe (he was already a member) nor trying to prove if he was Native American (he already knew). (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • Since my research of possible Cherokee ancestry uncovered the fact that the Cherokee were originally known as a tribe separated from their ancestral tribe, the Iroquois, my next undertaking was to research the Iroquois Indians. (pencilstubs.com)
  • I am attempting to look for corroborating evidence that Benny and or India had (at least partly) a Native American Heritage and from which tribe. (allthingscherokee.com)
  • 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)
  • The onset of casino gaming brought great change in Indian country, but it also created unexpected--and frequently heated-arguments over Indian identity: What makes somebody a member of a tribe, and how it is measured? (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • A small tribe in California, the Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians, which has been embroiled in enrollment fights for 30 years, in September adopted a DNA-testing ordinance that tribal leaders say will bring stability at long last. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • The Ho-Chunk began using DNA about 10 years ago, making the tribe one of the earliest to use the technique, but it has only been formalized into the tribal constitution since June 2009. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • This week, a woman in North Carolina revealed that she descends from the extinct Beothuk tribe in Canada as a result of a DNA test from a Canadian DNA testing company. (dna-explained.com)
  • Those of us who focus on Native American ancestry know unequivocally that "matching" someone with Native ancestry does NOT equate to being from that same tribe. (dna-explained.com)
  • Together with Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel, Cherokee Indian Hospital and Cherokee Boys Club, the tribe generated $78 million dollars in the local economy in 2005. (caimo.be)
  • SC SC History SC Indian Tribes SC Cherokee Indian Tribe Cherokee Language Cherokee Words. (caimo.be)
  • Not depending on race, mixed blood or Also not stuck to a form for the form sake but an authentic revival by shaping the tribe as it always have been done through visions and dreaming.He dedicated himself completely to this mission supported by his wife early spring. (panamaimage.com)
  • Toward their decline, the Susquehannock tribe was also known as 'Conestoga' to Natives and Europeans in Pennsylvania. (panamaimage.com)
  • To be a tribe member, you might need to prove as much as one-quarter blood quantum. (jillholman.com)
Carolina8
Tribes10
  • Besides being enrolled in the Navajo Nation , some Navajo people are citizens of the federally recognized Colorado River Indian Tribes . (wikipedia.org)
  • There's also no shortage of dissenters ready to lynch you for daring to make such claims - I call dissenters belonging to Amerindian tribes members of the collective Ku Klux clan and non-Amerindian ones the Radical Anti-Indian Terrorists . (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • Rather than involve ourselves in depth in an area of scientific and archologic complexity, I will attempt to sum up the article in a simplistic manner which may help us to derive the origins of the Iroquois tribes as well as that of their foes in North America. (pencilstubs.com)
  • Over the past decade, some tribes have turned to DNA testing to make sure tribal members, and potential enrollees, are who they say they are-at least when it comes to parentage. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • This trend has come to just a small number of tribes, perhaps 40 or 50 out of the 265 with gaming, one consultant on tribal government estimates, and just a sliver of the Indian nations overall. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • But as with many tribes there is rumor and innuendo about who is a tribal member or not. (americanindianadoptees.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)
  • But when it comes to the refusal to donate DNA samples, it's all about a history of broken treaties, contentious land claims and the special status of American Indian tribes in the U.S. No need to invoke boarding schools or "inequalities. (kinshipstudies.org)
  • Treaty violation, however, does not nullify their legality, and Native American tribes to this day still live under the laws and restrictions that have controlled their sovereignty for hundreds of years. (lu.se)
  • The publication of a text so carefully constructed with legally non-binding terms and saturated with use of the passive voice was, to many Native Americans, unsurprising in the context of dealings between Native American tribes and the Federal Government. (lu.se)
Indigenous7
  • In the Jim Crow South, white ancestry was acceptable for indigenous people, but black blood was not. (mixedracestudies.org)
  • The use of literature to develop more empathy, ties into a deepening of the vision of propitious Indigenous sides of American reality. (openedition.org)
  • They are syncretic poets in the sense that, while specific Indigenous traditions happily persist, the poems are reconciled to living within and make novel use of the products of American society. (openedition.org)
  • Harjo's creativity partakes of what Louise Glück calls, with some irony, in an essay, "American originality" (2017), and Harjo's subversion is tied to Indigenous tricksterism (see below). (openedition.org)
  • However, since Harvard Law's penchant for highlighting her as a "woman of color" who added a uniquely multicultural perspective first came to light in late April, Warren has refused to speak to Native newspapers and websites, including Indian Country Today, the largest indigenous media outlet in the nation. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • Through a comparative analysis, the duality that characterises Pico's verse will be highlighted, and will place him in a tradition of indigenous poets who demonstrate that duality is a defining feature of Native American poetry. (lu.se)
  • In academic writing about Native American literature, one will find a variety of nomenclature to describe America's indigenous. (lu.se)
Bona fide1
  • 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)
18671
  • I'm looking for info on William M Howard born 1867 in Ala. His mother was full blooded Cherokee and his dad was half. (allthingscherokee.com)
Confederacy1
  • Because of population and territorial losses among other Creek branches, the Muskogee-Creeks came to dominate a confederacy of Native provinces in the Lower Southeast in the late 1700s. (accessgenealogy.com)
20161
  • In 2016, data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey showed that income among Native Americans is substantially lower than that of the general U.S. population. (maryville.edu)
Genetic6
  • The argument now centers around not the known fact of their common ancestry, rather the dates and times of migration which would have led to insertion of this common genetic material. (pencilstubs.com)
  • This has caused quite an uproar, in both genetic genealogy and Native American research communities, and has been resoundingly discredited by geneticists. (dna-explained.com)
  • Now, if Indian blood and ancestry has commingled and mixed with our original Black people of the Americas, then our DNA and genetic material most certainly is coded in us. (finalcall.com)
  • 2012, 4) claim to have conducted the "most comprehensive survey of genetic diversity in Native Americans so far. (kinshipstudies.org)
  • As it turns out, the "most comprehensive survey" lacks DNA samples from American Indian populations in the U.S. The reason for this bizarre lacuna is the reluctance of American Indian communities to participate in genetic research and donate their samples. (kinshipstudies.org)
  • They argue that genetic ancestry information could also jeopardize land rights and other benefits that are based on the notion that their people have lived in a place since the beginning of time. (kinshipstudies.org)
Ethnicity2
  • So for my inaugural Admixture Centrifuge series, this allowed me the perfect opportunity to examine how the Cherokee's Native American component breaks down on ethnicity admixture calculators. (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • I received my ethnicity results, which showed no Native ancestry - but I know my ancestor was Native because she looks Indian in her photo. (dna-explained.com)
Quantum6
Origins3
  • I also wanted to know if my client's admixture results could tell us anything about the Cherokee's ancient origins vis a vis did they migrate from Great Lakes region of US/Canada or had they been in the American Southeast for millenniums? (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • I noticed that their study admitted a few ironies and misapprehensions, but this one is of a special kind, as it pertains not to their interpretations of the origins of American Indians but to their involuntary involvement in American Indian identity politics. (kinshipstudies.org)
  • Geneticists want to have it both ways: once their new tool to model population origins, namely mtDNA, was sequenced, they adopted the Bering Strait theory from archaeologists but, unlike archaeologists who can scour for projectile points anywhere in the vast expanses of the U.S., they routinely need reservation-bound American Indians, who presumably are genetically pure, to actually supply them with DNA. (kinshipstudies.org)
Members5
  • Furthermore, Native American students who are used to being surrounded by tribal members find themselves underrepresented in a sea of unfamiliar faces at college. (maryville.edu)
  • Later on during the days of our visit, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan addressed the Indian Council members, and while introducing his family members and delegation, she stated that I had just returned from Mongolia, and they appeared to be pleasantly surprised. (finalcall.com)
  • It is asserted that "The Hopis were members of the Shoshonean branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family of Mongoloids who migrated to America by way of the Bering Strait, crossing and arriving in the Southwest about 700 A.D. Other tribal groups include the Ute, Kiowa and Tanoan Pueblo in the United States and the Yaqui, Tarahumara and Aztec in Mexico. (finalcall.com)
  • It made arrangements for tribal members to lease land for a nominal fee and establish a central community in their historic homelands. (panamaimage.com)
  • Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans and Pacific Island- ers, and Hispanics -- patterns of tobacco use, adverse health effects, and the effective- ness of interventions need to be understood in terms of tobacco's cultural and socio- economic effects on the members of these groups. (cdc.gov)
Stereotypical1
  • and, most disappointingly, the National Congress of American Indians upbraided the Senator for facilitating the advancement of an offensive and stereotypical mischaracterization of Native Americans. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
Ancestor3
  • Both Y and mitochondrial DNA at appropriate testing levels can identify a Native ancestor back in time thousands of years. (dna-explained.com)
  • However, if the Native ancestor does not descend from the direct paternal or direct matrilineal lines, the only DNA test left is an autosomal test which tests all of your ancestral lines, but which can only reliably identify ancestral heritage for the past 5 or 6 generations in any of those lines due to recombination of DNA with the other parent in each generation. (dna-explained.com)
  • A match at the HVR1 level which only indicates C or X, without subgroups, could be from a very ancient common ancestor, back in Asia and does not necessarily indicate Native American heritage without additional testing. (dna-explained.com)
Contemporary1
  • Her hybrid relation to mainstream America is what, in Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities , Monica Manolescu would, speaking about a series of mostly contemporary artists, call both "creative and subversive. (openedition.org)
Racial4
  • Many Native Americans internalized these racial politics and adopted them as a means of survival. (mixedracestudies.org)
  • Morrison's request for Native American faith articles was denied for lack of appropriate racial lineage. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Scholars suggest there was substantial mestizaje (racial and cultural mixing) in Cuba`, as well, and several Indian pueblos that survived into the 19th century. (vazenterprises.com)
  • This war of racial survival is in perspective very simple, yet Whites seem unable to conduct classic tribal warfare. (westsdarkesthour.com)
Bureau3
  • In March 2012, Heather McMillan Nakai wrote a letter to the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs asking the agency to verify that she was Indian. (mixedracestudies.org)
  • Invoking a 1956 law concerning the status of the Lumbee, Joseph wrote: "The Lumbee Act precludes the Bureau from extending any benefits to the Indians of Robeson and adjoining counties. (mixedracestudies.org)
  • 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)
Negro1
  • When the United States was dividing up reservations and providing land "allotments" to Indians, a government commission told the Mississippi Choctaw that "where any person held a strain of Negro blood, the servile blood contaminated and polluted the Indian blood. (mixedracestudies.org)
Cherokee Nation1
  • citation needed], The United Keetoowah Band tribal council unanimously passed a resolution to approach the Cherokee Nation for a joint council meeting between the two Nations, as a means of "offering the olive branch", in the words of the UKB Council. (caimo.be)
Prove2
  • American Indian DNA will then be used to prove that American Indians are the recent (by humanity's standards) immigrants in the New World. (kinshipstudies.org)
  • Have you seen ads for genealogy dna tests so that you can prove your Indian ancestry? (jillholman.com)
Peoples4
  • Later, they learned farming from Pueblo peoples, growing mainly the traditional Native American " Three Sisters " of corn , beans , and squash . (wikipedia.org)
  • Although most popular literature describes the aboriginal occupants of northwest Florida as being Muskogee-Creek and Coushetta Indians, these Native peoples were immigrants, who entered Florida along with other branches of the Creeks and Yuchi in the 1700s and early 1800s. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • For many years, it has been widely accepted that these native Americans, both South and North of the equator, were spawned by Siberian peoples that traversed the Bering Strait during a time of relatively easy travel, some 23,000 years ago. (pencilstubs.com)
  • For the next fifty years the British and the French fought several wars for control of the Abenaki homeland, even though it belonged to the Native peoples of the area. (encyclopedia.com)
Genealogy2
  • There are completely legitimate tests for Native ancestry, including the Y DNA and mitochondrial DNA tests for direct paternal (blue box genealogy line, below) and direct matrilineal lines (red circle genealogy line, below). (dna-explained.com)
  • If you'd like to see an example of genealogy research combined with all three types of DNA testing for a Native Sioux man, please read about John Iron Moccasin . (dna-explained.com)
Going back1
  • In its own, individual way, the poetry Harjo includes plays on a syncretic tradition (going back to Neolin, Popay, Tenskwatawa, and other inter-tribal leaders). (openedition.org)
Immigrants1
  • American Indians are afraid that the Bering Strait theory, which describes them as a late and marginal offshoot from an Asian population, undermines their patrimony and may present them to the government authorities as a kind of "illegal immigrants" in North America. (kinshipstudies.org)
Heritage4
  • It's more sought after than even the ubiquitous lust for any Native American heritage at all. (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • We will not worry about that issue here, but will include this fascinating commonality as part of this investigation into our possible Indian heritage. (pencilstubs.com)
  • Because of the desire within the consuming public to know more about their Native heritage, several specialty testing services have emerged to offer "Native American" tests. (dna-explained.com)
  • The chorus disseminating this perspective would do well to refer to the comments made by Warren in early May, when she defended the claims to Cherokee and Delaware heritage that remain unsubstantiated to this day by declaring that she has, "high cheekbones…like all the Indians do. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
Argue1
  • Through the use of several analytic methods and postcolonial theories, this thesis will analyse representations of language, place, and identity, and argue that they are constructed in the border between Native American and American consciousness. (lu.se)
Enrollment1
  • According to PNPI, college enrollment rates for Native American students dropped from 23% in 2015-16 to 19% the following year. (maryville.edu)
Rolls3
Navajo Nation1
  • As we were introduced to our guests, one Navajo lady elegantly dressed in her native apparel, who was elected as princess of the Navajo Nation for that year, came forward towards me and I immediately recognized that her garment and her crown was strikingly similar to the welldressed ladies of the Mongolian society throughout periods of their history. (finalcall.com)
Caucasian4
  • According to the National Center for Education Statistics , 75% of Native American students earned a high school diploma in 2006, which was 16% less than Caucasian students and 18% less than Asian/Pacific Islander students. (maryville.edu)
  • Native American full-time students who began attending college in 2008 had an average completion rate of 23%, compared with 44% for Caucasian students. (maryville.edu)
  • According to PNPI, 62% of Native American students need federal student loans, compared with 56% of Caucasian students. (maryville.edu)
  • In 2011-12, 85% of Native American students accessed federal grants, compared with 69% of Caucasian students. (maryville.edu)
Literary1
  • The variety of terms and lack of consensus in Native American literary studies does highlight the reality that this nomenclature is a postcolonial issue. (lu.se)
Cultures2
  • brass tsu-yi belch u-wa-gu-le-ga Much of what is known about pre-18th century Native American cultures has come from records of Spanish expeditions. (caimo.be)
  • The United States of America is a rich blend of cultures. (cdc.gov)
Membership3
  • 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)
  • I believe Diana's 'Outlander' series has been instrumental in raising awareness of the clan system which has been beneficial in complementing the hard work done by the clan commissioners to increase their membership in North America,' Lord Sempill continues. (sinijari.fi)
  • An author's tribal membership is always included before or after their name, foregrounding the role of their culture in their work. (lu.se)
Americas3
  • Or, did some Australo-Melanese group migrate by sea or land into the Americas and mingle their blood with that of the earlier arrivals? (pencilstubs.com)
  • One thing seems for certain to this non-scientific personage, it had to have occurred early in their exploration and occupation of the Americas for it to be common to every Indian population of today who submitted their DNA for analysis. (pencilstubs.com)
  • Throughout the years of my research, up to the time of my initial visit to Mongolia, I never directly associated Mongolia to the native habitant of the Americas. (finalcall.com)
Poets4
  • American poets. (lu.se)
  • Firstly, Tommy Pico's Nature Poem will be read alongside a selection of Native American poets. (lu.se)
  • Long Soldier's work demonstrates the complicated relationship between Native American poets and the English language, utilising linguistic and poetic methods to disrupt the hierarchical power of English in public discourse. (lu.se)
  • However, the diversity of Native American poets is considered in the literature. (lu.se)
Canada2
  • For the Dene people native to northern Canada, see Dene . (wikipedia.org)
  • Some tribal groups were forced to abandon their villages in New England and regroup in Canada during times of armed conflict. (encyclopedia.com)
Context1
  • Condensing the extensive and unwieldy topic into time-limited opening remarks, Brown correctly noted that the Cambridge professor had advertised herself as an American Indian in a professional context, "and, as you can see, clearly she's not. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
Settlers2
  • There can be no doubt, though, that when Anglo-American settlers entered the region, several Yuchi villages were located along the lower Choctawhatchee River Basin. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • While the Native Americans were away from their New England territory, white settlers took over the land. (encyclopedia.com)
Casino profits1
  • But the joined issues of Indian identity and the sharing of lucrative casino profits have had an outsized impact. (americanindianadoptees.com)
Time8
  • When Native Americans do find a way to afford college, whether through scholarships, grants, or loans, they still may have a hard time affording textbooks, lodging, and other necessities. (maryville.edu)
  • Native American students on campus can have a hard time coping with a lack of community and cultural familiarity from faculty. (maryville.edu)
  • They moved to the Indian Territory (oklahoma) about the time of the war. (allthingscherokee.com)
  • From this standing start, Dr. Gabaldon wrote her first novel in 1989 whilst bringing up three young children and working full-time as a university professor. (sinijari.fi)
  • The fact that every time I assign "Battle of the Bones" and screen Bones of Contention , some students openly snicker or rant about Native Americans holding back science. (kinshipstudies.org)
  • At a time when food prices are rising, this is the last thing American consumers - and farmers - need. (avc.com)
  • After that period of time the Indian warriors and their families were able to escape from the surrounded village. (panamaimage.com)
  • Employed Full Time f. (cdc.gov)
People4
  • Diné or Naabeehó ) are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States . (wikipedia.org)
  • It is not clear whether the Yucci were one and the same as the Yuchi Indians of the Southern Highlands, but they Yuchi do claim to have been the aboriginal people of the Southeast. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • Through DNA tests or other methods, thousands of Indian people have found themselves disenrolled in recent years for failing to meet tribal criteria. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • Around the early 1500s people in Europe heard rumors of a wealthy Native city called "Norumbega," which was said to be located in northern Maine. (encyclopedia.com)
Member1
  • And in Wisconsin, a young Indian woman, Daria Powless, had the fruits of her sweet basketball season turn to vinegar when the apparently jealous family of a teammate unearthed a painful secret to challenge her qualifications as a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation. (americanindianadoptees.com)
Poetry1
  • As the poet Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe) wrote, "there is no such thing as Native American poetry. (lu.se)
Nations1
  • 4 In counter-rhythm to today's divisive trends, "Living Nations," is a resource projecting the reader forward towards a well grounded state built on comradery and a virtual America for all. (openedition.org)
Black1
  • This Asiatic appearance in the original Black man, most clearly defined as Oriental or Asian in appearance, is seen in the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and to many of our families in America being the same. (finalcall.com)
Squash1
  • During the late Archaic and Woodland Period, Native Americans in the region began to cultivate plants such as marsh elder, lambsquarters, pigweed, sunflowers, and some native squash. (caimo.be)
Groups1
  • Data on Native groups outside the US have been studied for years, and I doubt that the sky will fall over the heads of the new Canadian and South American groups that participated in this particular study. (kinshipstudies.org)
History2
  • The history of Native Americans after the arrival of the pilgrims in 1620 is one of disenfranchisement, genocide, and forced migration. (lu.se)
  • In 2009, the United States Federal Government issued an "acknowledgement and apology," acknowledging a "long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies" in its dealings with Native Americans (Congress.gov). (lu.se)
African-American3
1500s1
  • The Gulf Coastal Plain stretching from Mobile, AL to Cedar Key, FL was known as Am-Ixchel by Native Americans, when first explored by the Spaniards in the 1500s. (accessgenealogy.com)
Race2
  • 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)
  • The others being creationism vs. science and race in America. (kinshipstudies.org)
Person1
  • An NDN person in occupied America": Tommy Pico and Place. (lu.se)
Government2
  • Records relating to tribal elections and government. (archives.gov)
  • American Indians were never subjected to genocide by the American government. (kinshipstudies.org)
Families1
  • Additional Health Support Information: Emotional, cultural, and professional support services are also available to Survivors and their families through the Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program. (americanindianadoptees.com)
Describes1
  • Gerald Vizenor describes the word Indian as "a colonial enactment, not a loan word, [whose] dominance is sustained by the simulation that has superseded the real tribal names" (11). (lu.se)
Grandmother1
  • I received 20 plus percent of Native American DNA on my AncestryDNA results which wasn't a surprise being that my grandmother was 15/16 and 1/16 European. (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
Population3
  • Native Americans also suffer poverty at higher rates than the general population. (maryville.edu)
  • They concluded that all Native Americans, ancient and modern, stem from a single source population in Siberia that split from other Asians around 23,000 years ago and moved into the now-drowned land of Beringia. (pencilstubs.com)
  • By 1548 the native population had declined to fewer than 500. (vazenterprises.com)
Nation1
  • In 2006, Native American students between the ages of 16 and 24 had the second-highest drop-out rate in the nation. (maryville.edu)
Years ago1
Family1