• [note 3] Another term often used to refer to those who lived in the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans is "First Nations", the official term in Canada for those people descended from the pre-colonial indigenous nations of Canada. (rationalwiki.org)
  • In the colonial era, through the Revolutionary War, the foundation of America was oratorically clarified as an act of prudence-that is, God led people, specifically the white Europeans, to America to find a new and superior or incomparable societal order that would be the light unto all realms.2 In fact, many settlers also believed in creating a new nation filled with history and stories. (ipl.org)
  • It's for young readers so the violence white Europeans brought against Native Americans soon after the time of the Pilgrims isn't directly in the story. (loe.org)
  • In South America and Mexico, present civilizations knew how to build stone cities with running water in houses. (fileane.com)
  • Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the project as a "beacon of cooperation, innovation and shared progress," while President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen called it a "green and digital bridge across continents and civilizations. (worldcrunch.com)
  • The reason is that there have occurred many changes in the equations between nations as well as civilizations. (thestatesman.com)
  • The staff of the National Congress of American Indians gather at the organization's new headquarters, the Embassy of Tribal Nations, in the heart of the diplomatic enclave in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of the National Congress of American Indians. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • Since 2003, every year, the president of the National Congress of American Indians presents the State of Indian Nations. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • Fifty tribal leaders met in Denver, CO in 1944 to establish the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the oldest national native organization. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) has new leaders including president, Pechanga Tribal Chair Mark Macarro. (nativenews.net)
  • I don't think that it was a coincidence that he passed at the exact moment that the National Congress of American Indians' Annual Conference was convening-Big Brother Means was a throwback, a non-conformist, a fighter. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • I see Russell Means as the Indigenous equivalent of Malcolm X. See, the truth is that Native people needed (and still need) the fiery doppelganger of thoughtful, mainstream organizations like National Congress of American Indians in the same way that Martin Luther King, Jr. needed Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • Whereas National Congress of American Indians speaks politely and eloquently, using big words and paperwork to demand that the United States give Native people our just due, Russell Means was the person with the chip on his shoulder that would simply smack those dirty thieves in the mouth and take as much of that "just due" as he could. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • This use of the term "Indian" originates from Christopher Columbus 's belief on reaching the Caribbean islands in 1492 that he had instead reached Asia , which was referred to as India at the time (specifically, he believed the island of Hispaniola was "Cipangu" or Japan ). (rationalwiki.org)
  • America when Christopher Columbus mistakenly believed he had landed ashore in India. (lu.se)
  • It was an important undertaking and at its inauguration human rights activists gave short presentations remembering many of the world's genocides from the near eradication of indigenous peoples across the Americas, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Nazi Holocaust, Palestine, the British genocide of Indians in 1857, and Bosnia. (inminds.com)
  • The objects on view are all drawn from North American areas and peoples, which encompass 300 nations in widely divergent regions and cultures from the Athapaska and Northwest Coast to the Southwest, the Great Lakes, the Plains, the Prairie and the Northern and Southern Woodlands. (antiquesandthearts.com)
  • Native Americans are the peoples who live in North, Central, and South America, and are the descendants of those who lived there before the European invasions commencing in the late fifteenth century. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Certain circumpolar peoples are sometimes excluded from the definition of Native Americans. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Most Hispanic peoples in the Americas have some Native American ancestry, as do smaller numbers of whites and blacks. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Muddying the water still further, recent archaeological evidence suggests that the peoples known today as American Indians or Native Americans were actually the second wave of settlers who crossed the land bridge into North America during the last Ice Age. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Many Indigenous theorists now consider "modes of relationship" a more useful concept than "modes of production" when talking about what Winona LaDuke, a citizen of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation, has called the co-evolution of Indigenous peoples and their environment and surroundings. (newpol.org)
  • The story of the "first Thanksgiving" that persists in American culture often stereotypes Native peoples and sanitizes what happened to them as white settlers dispossessed them of their lands. (loe.org)
  • And the story was written and illustrated by Indigenous authors who are descended from the first peoples on this continent. (loe.org)
  • NEW YORK CITY - When "American" settlers first ventured westward from the eastern seaboard they were dazzled by the Native American crafts they saw. (antiquesandthearts.com)
  • Early feminists and Marxists, among others, used the Iroquois as a counterpoint to what they described as European-bred oppressiveness at a time when mainstream America was preoccupied with westward expansion. (ratical.org)
  • Amy Greenberg's book, Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion, provides documented evidence that settlers believed they were destined for expansion throughout the continent. (ipl.org)
  • In addition, settlers believed that the New World was the place to establish a Christian nation and expand throughout the vast region. (ipl.org)
  • A few generations ago, American colonial history centered on a single narrative that flowed from Jamestown in 1607 to the Declaration of Independence in 1776. (americanheritage.com)
  • Soon a web of peace treaties opened the Atlantic to commerce and made North America accessible for those many colonial beginnings in 1607 and 1608. (americanheritage.com)
  • 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)
  • In Latin America the triumph of the Cuban revolution is still generating expectations, and thousands of young people join the ranks of the revolutionary parties and movements. (nodo50.org)
  • The reunification of south and north will expand to the world level. (tparents.org)
  • One significant leading up to the unification of the world is the unification of religions, especially Protestantism and Catholicism, centering on North and South America. (tparents.org)
  • An America where the political boundaries between the states and between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico are becoming increasingly blurred, betokening a vast open zone for trade, commerce, and cultural interaction, the nexus of tomorrow's transnational world. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Our Empire stretched across the world, we owned much of the North American continent, the Australian continent, the Indian subcontinent, parts of Southeast Asia, much of the African continent, most of the Middle East and countless islands. (thetoptens.com)
  • Those taking him more seriously than I am inclined to do tend to see in Zhirinovsky's advocacy of a world 'order' in which Russia would dominate the entire Eurasian continent echoes--and not just echoes--of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' (Hanson and Williams, 1999, p. 273). (rferl.org)
  • The Bible envisions a world of beautiful and unique nations, not a stateless 'open society' run by global oligarchs. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • And that there is an alternative: We don't have to dismantle our country, our nation, the world, to have an economic recovery. (larouchepub.com)
  • The king was deeply interested in America, particularly the large area labeled on world maps as Nova Francia, after voyages of Jacques Cartier in the 16th century. (americanheritage.com)
  • The stories told by Nigeria's booming film industry, known as Nollywood, have emerged as a cultural phenomenon across Africa, the vanguard of the country's growing influence across the continent in music, comedy, fashion and even religion. (smh.com.au)
  • Sharp says she'll continue to work to make an international imprint as she works to get tribal nations more visible outside of the United States by attending a meeting with Indigenous leaders in Dubai as Macarro starts his term as president. (nativenews.net)
  • The message is timed precisely - just a few days after the State of the Union address from the president of the United States - and it reaffirms the sovereign status of nearly 600 tribes and nations. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • Native Americans resisted across the continent and many tribes disappeared in the ensuing wars. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • In 1919, 75 leaders of southern California tribes founded the Federation of Mission Indians, The group adopted the slogan "Human Rights and Home Rule. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • With more than 250 tribes and member, NCAI is the largest to represent recognized Indian nations. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • He passed through the Great Lakes, mentioning as he goes various Indian tribes and some of the products of the country, stopped some little time at the great town of the Winnebagoes, at Lake Winnebago, in Wisconsin, where he was very civilly received. (heritage-history.com)
  • 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)
  • The 'big deal' he's talking about is a new trade and infrastructure corridor planned to be built between India , the Middle East and Europe. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Nollywood generates about 2500 movies a year, making it the second-biggest producer after Bollywood in India, and its films have displaced US, Indian and Chinese ones on the televisions that are ubiquitous in bars, hair salons, airport lounges and homes across Africa. (smh.com.au)
  • The Iroquois people also called Haudenosaunee people are organized into family, clan, nation and confederation. (fileane.com)
  • As a reference to people who are native to the continent of America the term "native American" is clearly an absolutely correct term. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Some people like to say "If you were born here, you are a native American", thus devaluing the usage of a people who say "yeah? (rationalwiki.org)
  • If you really really really just gotta talk about the indigenous people of America as a collective, choose one term and stick with it throughout any paper, article, or presentation. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Among Indigenous people, the common name for the continent of North America-and the one I will use accordingly-is Turtle Island. (newpol.org)
  • There were several diffrent way people used the word Manifest Destiny like the way John L. O'sullivan used it was he believed that " majority of Americans at the time believed was their mission from God: to expand to west and bring the United States government to unenlightened people. (ipl.org)
  • 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)
  • But by July of 1810, Clinton began to witness a thriving Indian economy with people drying fish, making wampum and raising children. (ratical.org)
  • But it does reference the "day of mourning" which is what some Native American people now call Thanksgiving Day. (loe.org)
  • He said the same thing that Obama has said recently, that he's too good for the American people, as Nero said he's too good for the people of Rome. (larouchepub.com)
  • The common thread among the women - a strong desire to serve their people, along with encouragement from their elders, especially aunties and grandmas, who helped them fight loneliness and isolation during a time where there weren't other Native women, let alone other Native Americans, in law school. (nativenews.net)
  • She told the group, she's happy to see more Native women in law, but says progress comes amid "somber reminders" - from the marginalization of Native Americans to the chronic neglect of Missing, Murdered and Indigenous People. (nativenews.net)
  • At a time of lagging self-esteem for Indigenous people, where we were taught to believe, after 500 years of ugly genocide, forced assimilation and conquest, that everything "Native" was ugly, dirty, evil, stupid, he made "looking Indian" cool again. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • Four million people live in the Arctic ( 1 ), yet little is known about sexual health and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the circumpolar North. (cdc.gov)
  • refers to people born outside Africa who have ancestors from that continent and whose history is related to forced migrations and diaspora (dispersion of ethnic groups). (bvsalud.org)
  • According to John L. O'Sullivan, or at least it is understood that he has written the article, believed that the nation should arise above all other nations and create an excellence on divine principles and to establish on earth the noblest temple ever dedicated to worship the "Most High. (ipl.org)
  • The Sultanate was the first Arab country to establish diplomatic contact with the United States of America in the first half of the 19th century. (mara.om)
  • The organized political struggle for greater sovereignty began in 1911, when a group of Native Americans met in Ohio to establish the Society of American Indians. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • During their stay in Uruguay, we did Hoon Dok Hae with The Way of Unification of South and North in God s Providence (Way of Unification in English). (tparents.org)
  • Long thought to be the Lamb like beast of America by Christian prophetic scholars , we find a new understanding as the Islamic scholars give us a new perspective from the hadiths (sayings) of the Prophet Muhammad . (biblesearchers.com)
  • When the fighting in the South finally ends, America will be more secure against the communist, Islamic and pan-Islamic threat. (rferl.org)
  • In 1972, the Sultanate became a member of the Islamic Conference Organisation and in 1973, a member of the Non-Aligned Group of Nations. (mara.om)
  • The art of teaching Iroquois Indians, at the sources of the first constitution. (fileane.com)
  • These Iroquois were thus the first Native Americans to build more comfortable and secure buildings than their tents' rallies. (fileane.com)
  • Six nations of the Iroquois group, decided to gather around an oral law, the Great Law that Lies, to end their incessant conflicts. (fileane.com)
  • A fter ratification of the United States Constitution, the political ideas of the Iroquois and their influence on the American mind persisted for most of the nineteenth century. (ratical.org)
  • Knowledge of Iroquois and other native American societies and their political organizations would appeal to architects of European and American social and political movements much as they had helped shape the ideals of some of the United States' most influential founders. (ratical.org)
  • Often, the Iroquois League's ideas were welded to the Classical imagery that was so evident in the first decades of the American Federal period. (ratical.org)
  • As a result of his travels in Iroquois country, Clinton concluded that Native Americans have "all the indications of an incipient civilization. (ratical.org)
  • Manifest Destiny is a term for the mentality common amid the nineteenth century time of American development that the United States could, as well as was bound to, extend across the nation. (ipl.org)
  • When nations break out of their boundaries and begin to do things contrary to the purpose of God and the directive will of God, they have trouble. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • As the erstwhile President Trump asked Europe: what was the need for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? (thestatesman.com)
  • The EBI letter is a confusing hodgepodge of nativist talking points baptized with references to the Bible used out of their historical context. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • [4] References such as this helped America to develop an identity distinct from the British parliamentary tradition. (ratical.org)
  • With the same prescience and eye for telling detail that distinguished his bestselling Balkan Ghosts , Robert Kaplan now explores his native country, the United States of America. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • His starting point: the conviction that America is a country not in decline but in transition, slowly but inexorably shedding its identity as a monolithic nation-state and assuming a radically new one. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • A new exhibit, "The Responsive Eye: Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers visitors a rare opportunity to view one of the most impressive collections in the country. (antiquesandthearts.com)
  • As a country don't talk about England but Britain. (thetoptens.com)
  • American Indian sovereignty is as old as the Constitution, but over the centuries it has eroded and nearly perished, as European and American conquerors rolled over Indian Country. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • With the natural suspicion that Englishmen of his time felt of the French, he believed that they, while they retained their power in North America, had taken every artful method to keep all other nations, particularly the English, ignorant of everything concerning the interior parts of the country. (heritage-history.com)
  • Born into the Odawa Nation, Alanis became the first Aboriginal woman to graduate from the National Theatre School of Canada. (fitzhenry.ca)
  • They thus copied the constructions made in this maritime base of the Gulf of Saint Laurent by the Vikings and Templières fleets which then went to South America and Mexico to trade with the civilization of the Andes and that of Central America. (fileane.com)
  • Hundreds of different social organizations existed on Turtle Island prior to the arrival of capitalist markets, but one common feature was that most Indigenous Nations treated the land as something held in common. (newpol.org)
  • Never nostalgic or falsely optimistic, bracingly unafraid of change and its consequences, Kaplan paints a startling portrait of post-Cold War America a great nation entering the final, most uncertain phase of its history. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • A whole new generation of activists has learned the long history of the United States continually breaking treaties with the Indigenous Nations-stomping upon their self-determination any time the government and corporations demand access to Native lands to extract energy and raw materials. (newpol.org)
  • Manifest Destiny is a unique, yet mysterious fundamental series of events in American history. (ipl.org)
  • The deeper causes of the American condition, according to Goodwin, lie in history-not American history, but in the "individualism" planted by the Renaissance and nurtured by a combination of "science" and "mysticism. (nybooks.com)
  • Today early American history has blossomed into a braided narrative with many story lines. (americanheritage.com)
  • It was a pivot point in American history. (americanheritage.com)
  • 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)
  • Musing upon America's fortunate condition, with its vast stretches of unoccupied land and seemingly inexhaustible resources, Tocqueville concluded that "the great privilege of Americans is to be able to commit reparable mistakes. (nybooks.com)
  • Pakistan was for decades a favoured ally that significantly lived off American aid, but no longer. (thestatesman.com)
  • It formulated the natural-law existence of pre-state rights for all human beings, irrespective of their culture, nation or religion - which, however, could be affirmed by all cultures, nations and religions as the basic human substance of a just peace. (zeit-fragen.ch)
  • The Great Law which Binds: it comprises 117 articles and defines the functions and prerogatives of the fifty chiefs or royaneh who sit on the Council of Nations, as well as the number of royaneh per nation. (fileane.com)
  • [1] Others say the term "Indian" is both inaccurate and confusing. (rationalwiki.org)
  • An America whose wealthy communities become wealthier and more fortress-like as they become more closely linked to the world's business capitals than to the desolate ghettoes next door. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • King has also produced, toured, directed and developed a wide range of plays in many First Nation communities across the continent. (fitzhenry.ca)
  • Fires rage across continents in their place. (boloji.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • An NDN person in occupied America": Tommy Pico and Place. (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)
  • Internally I felt that True Parents brought a long rope from the North Pole to the South Pole in order to correct the axis of the earth. (tparents.org)
  • From souvenirs to serious collections, American Indian art has long had a universal appeal. (antiquesandthearts.com)
  • In 1599 he traveled through Spanish America on a long espionage mission. (americanheritage.com)
  • This state of mind powered western settlement, Native American evacuation and war with Mexico. (ipl.org)
  • A collector's collector, Coe made his selections with an eye toward the aesthetic of American Indian art. (antiquesandthearts.com)
  • Since she had to leave her home in a huff (we avoided talking about it) and did not come here on student visa, Taslima is finding it difficult to get her admitted to a Delhi school. (governancenow.com)
  • And a lot of this came from the Thanksgiving meal and the idea of Thanksgiving that we take for granted now, right, the story that I certainly grew up with, was around pilgrims coming across looking for a new life meeting a few friendly Indians and they had, you know, who helped them out, they ended up having a feast, and everyone was happy. (loe.org)
  • The U.S. Constitution mandates a regular report from the president to Congress, and since 1790, since George Washington produced the first such report, an American President has delivered a State of the Union either in writing or in a talk. (cathyrobbins.com)
  • Altogether the Bref discours was a report on how not to found an empire in America. (americanheritage.com)
  • Impressed with the report, King Henry gave Champlain a pension and the assignment to work with other experts in the basement of the Louvre on the colonization of North America. (americanheritage.com)
  • Somewhat larger numbers of whites and blacks will claim Native American ancestry out of embarrassment for what is really, respectively, black or white ancestry. (rationalwiki.org)
  • I doubt that a white person, a European or American, can appreciate Nollywood movies the way an African can,' said Katsuva Ngoloma, a linguist at the University of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo who has written about Nollywood's significance. (smh.com.au)
  • Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • It is also a proud moment for America to elect a woman as Vice-President, whether she be white or coloured. (thestatesman.com)
  • No, he was lightning, and he wanted to burn down the White House as a symbol of American colonialism. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • Most respondents were either Black/African American (26), White (25) or MENA (23). (cdc.gov)
  • An example of this was the radical group that named itself the American Indian Movement. (rationalwiki.org)
  • The EBI group recently wrote a letter to President Trump, Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urging them to put Americans first. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • As part of Native American Heritage month, the American Bar Association recently asked a group of Native women to talk about how they became lawyers and trailblazers. (nativenews.net)
  • The year 1492 marked the beginning of the bloody conquest of America by Spain and Portugal with the blessing of the Roman Catholic Church - a church in power, which had the shift towards human rights and democracy, catholic social teaching and cooperativism yet ahead of it. (zeit-fragen.ch)
  • Material conditions required Nations to develop relationships with human and nonhuman life in order to thrive. (newpol.org)
  • As you know, True Parents departed America on the evening of November 30 and arrived in South America early on the morning of December 1. (tparents.org)
  • Indians still symbolized republican virtue and freedom in the early republic as they had at the Boston Tea Party. (ratical.org)
  • In his introduction, Carver has a prophetic word to say about the unhappy relations existing, when he wrote, between Great Britain and America. (heritage-history.com)
  • 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)
  • Indians and African slaves compelled to dive to lethal depths in the pearl fisheries of Margarita Island off the coast of Venezuela. (americanheritage.com)
  • A second change is the adoption of a new response option for respondents of Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) descent. (cdc.gov)
  • However, as the name "American" is used in some languages to refer solely to the citizens of the United States, some have suggested the use of other terms such as Native Canadian and, presumably, Native Mexican , Native Argentinian or whatever. (rationalwiki.org)
  • I will do my best to use actual Indigenous Nation names such as the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota (Oceti Sakowin) or Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) or the Dine (Navajo) but will also use the words "Indigenous," "Native," "Native American," "American Indian," and "Indian" when appropriate, such as in quotations. (newpol.org)
  • In academic writing about Native American literature, one will find a variety of nomenclature to describe America's indigenous. (lu.se)
  • Over many centuries, trade has flourished with the Indian sub-continent and Far East, and in more recent times, with East Africa. (mara.om)
  • As you recall, prior to their going to South America, True Parents spent seven or eight days in Kodiak. (tparents.org)
  • But one important thing in this stay in South America was the conversation between True Parents and President Sun Jo Hwang in Korea on December 15 around 8 a.m. (tparents.org)
  • The days of hunting South Americans in pirate ships are not yet over. (mercopress.com)
  • There are two other states, Alaska and Hawaii, which are north and south of the contiguous states, respectively. (thetoptens.com)
  • He broke the system of indentured Indian labour in South Africa. (travel-impact-newswire.com)
  • Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, overtook its rival, South Africa, as the continent's largest economy two years ago, thanks in part to the film industry's explosive growth. (smh.com.au)
  • The lives of North, Central and South Americans matter. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • Tony Perry, one of the coauthors of Keepunumuk, is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and currently lives in the U.K. He hopes that the book will create a new default narrative for the Thanksgiving story. (loe.org)
  • So just to introduce myself, I am a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. (loe.org)
  • So learn to live with the rhetoric of American presidential candidates. (boloji.com)
  • The U.S. looked to us to lead a high-level conversation between the United States directly with Indigenous leaders from every continent. (nativenews.net)
  • Our objective was to describe the basic epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections for Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of North America. (cdc.gov)