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African-Native
Americans : We are still here : A Photo Exhibit
Many people believe racial and ethnic groups in North America have always
lived as separately as they do now. However, segregation was neither practical
nor preferable when people who were not native to this continent began
arriving here.
http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/native/native_thumbs.htm
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A
Warrior in Two Worlds Eli Parker
Ely Parker was a Seneca chief, a legal scholar,
an engineer, a Civil War hero, and a Cabinet-level commissioner -- all
by the age of 40. At first glance, his story appears to be one of success
and triumph.
http://www.pbs.org/warrior/noflash/index.html
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Cheyenne
participants in the battle of the Little Big Horn
http://www.montana.edu/wwwfpcc/tribes/cheyenne.html
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Chief
Pontiac
On June 14, 1671, the Sieur de St. Lusson
(in the presence of three Jesuits, 16 lay Frenchmen and several hundred
Indians) took possession for France of "Lake Superior, Lake Huron
and all contiguous countries, streams, lakes and rivers in all their length
and breadth bounded by the North and South (Pacific) seas."
http://detnews.com/history/pontiac/pontiac.htm
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Chief
Washakie
The date of Washakie’s birth is unknown,
but it probably occurred during the first few years of the 19th century.
His father was a Flathead and his mother was from one of the Shoshone
tribal groups, probably a Lemhi. The future Shoshone chief was named Pina
Quanah (Smell of Sugar) when he was born.
http://wyoarchives.state.wy.us/articles/washakie.htm
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Columbus,
My Enemy
In May 1497, the Taino ruler Guarionex was enmeshed in a potentially disastrous
political situation. Five years had passed since the strange and dangerous
Spaniards first appeared on the northeast shore of Hispaniola.
http://www.millersv.edu/~columbus/data/art/WILSON02.ART
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Cornplanter
Cornplanter (c.1736-1836) was a great war captain
of the Seneca nation, a member of the Iroquois Confederacy. The American
Revolution split this Confederacy, destroying its New York bulwark against
the whites.
http://www.sun-bird.com/sixnations/Cornplanter.html
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Discovering
Lewis & Clark: The Faces of Sacagawea
"There is no known image of Sacagawea that
was made of her during her lifetime, so no one can be sure what she
really looked like. Yet because the Shoshone woman has been the subject
of so many sculptures and paintings, especially since about 1900, we
have a rich heritage of artists' conceptions to contemplate." Visit
Discovering Lewis & Clark to explore a dozen artistic renderings
of Sacagawea, but don't miss the "interpreter" link embedded
in the intro, which leads to an excellent three-page Sacagawea bio titled
"The Interpreter's Wife."
http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-channel.asp?ChannelID=159
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Dull
Knife
The life of Dull Knife, the Cheyenne, is a true hero tale. Simple, child-like
yet manful, and devoid of selfish aims, or love of gain, he is a pattern
for heroes of any race.
http://www.indians.org/welker/dullknif.htm
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Elizabeth
Peratrovich - Women in Alaska's History-
Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich was born
July 4, 1911, in Petersburg, Alaska. Her Tlingit name was Kaaxgal.aat.
She was of the Lukaax.adi clan of the Raven moiety.
http://library.thinkquest.org/11313/Early_History/Native_Alaskans/elizabeth.html
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Idaho
Public TV: The Journey of Sacagawea
"More mountains, lakes and streams bear her
name than any other North American woman." Although the entire
one-hour public television special is not available online, you can
watch seven RealPlayer snippets of The Journey of Sacagawea, a Idaho
Public TV production. Other reasons to visit include the commentary
from historians and descendants such as David Borlaug, President of
the Lewis and Clark Heritage Foundation: "She simply was a great
presence. An Indian woman with a child on her back for all these other
Indian Tribes to take note of. This could not be a war party, it had
to be a party of peace".
http://www.idahoptv.org/lc/sacagawea/
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Idaho
Stateman: Sacajawea
This multimedia, seven-chapter picture book is
the story of Sacajawea told by her people, the Lemhi-Shoshone Indians,
and my pick of the day. "Some of her tribe´s interpretations
of her story differ from long-accepted facts of the story. They are
presented as accurate in the sense that they reflect the oral history
and opinions of the Lemhi people." Highlights include audio clips
from her tribesmen, a glossary of Lemhi words, and three printable handouts
for the classroom: review questions, classroom activities, and a word
scramble.
http://sacajawea.idahostatesman.com/
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Ishi
The Last Yahi
In August 1911, Ishi, the last surviving
member of the Yahi Indian tribe, walked out of the foothills near Mount
Lassen
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/sc/hist/ishi/
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Jim
Thorpe Home Page
Describing Jim Thorpe as a great athlete would be doing him a severe injustice.
A better description would be calling him the greatest athlete of the
20th Century. This label will probably be debated by many, but Thorpe's
accomplishments speak louder than words.
http://www.cmgww.com/sports/thorpe/thorpe.html
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In
Honor of Alfonso Ortiz
Alfonso Ortiz, one of the few American Indians to
provide anthropology with a view from the "inside out," is remembered
for his numerous contributions at the University of New Mexico, first
as a student, then as an esteemed professor.
http://www.indigenouspeople.org/natlit/ortiz.htm
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King
Ferdinand's letter to the Taino/Arawak Indians
Below is a letter which King Ferdinand sent along with Columbus on his
second voyage to Haiti. It was to be communicated to the Taino/Arawak
Indians.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/038.html
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Kiowa
Drawings in the National Anthropological Archives
The Smithsonian’s collections of Kiowa drawings
include work of art on buffalo hide and more recent examples on paper,
a medium that Kiowa artists adopted after it became widely available in
the late nineteenth century.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/kiowa/kiowa.htm
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Lewis
and Clark
With help from the Library of Congress--our
nation's library, I have created a virtual exhibit of their incredible
journey filled with rare maps, original letters and colorful illustrations--
many found only in the collections of the Library of Congress. We recently
have added rare documents from the National Archives to this exhibit.
http://www.senate.gov/~dorgan/lewis_and_clark/index.html
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Little
Wolf
If any people ever fought for liberty and justice, it was the Cheyennes.
If any ever demonstrated their physical and moral courage beyond cavil,
it was this race of purely American heroes, among whom LittleWolf was
a leader.
http://www.indians.org/welker/littwolf.htm
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Massasoit
MASSASOIT "Great Leader" also known as
OUSAMEQUIN "Yellow Feather" (and variants of that name after
1632). Born approximately 1585; died 1660.
http://www.plimoth.org/Library/massasoi.htm
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Mohawk
Skywalkers
Canadian Mohawks from the Caughnawaga Indian
Reserve on the St. Lawrence near Montreal truly are skywalkers. These
descendants of one of the main tribes of the historic Iroquois Confederacy
took readily to working on aboveground high-steel construction, in particular
on the giant skyscrapers that soared over New York City during the twentieth
century.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume4/64-65.htm
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Montana
Kids: Sacagawea
For elementary and middle-school students, Montana
Kids provides a single-page illustrated Sacagawea bio, with a link to
the U.S. Mint page about the Sacagawea golden dollar coin. "In
2000, Sacagawea's face was minted onto a dollar coin, following in Susan
B. Anthony's footsteps. The coin depicts the Shoshone woman Sacagawea,
a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, carrying her son Jean Baptiste
Charbonneau.."
http://montanakids.com/history_and_prehistory/lewis_and_clark/sacagawea.htm
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The
Moundbuilders
The Mississippians, as they are known, erected
dozens--perhaps thousands--of earthworks across the Delta and the southeast
when Europeans were living through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/feature/builder.htm
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National
Geographic Magazine: Sacagawea
"What we know about her: She was a teenage
mother and a valued interpreter for Lewis and Clark. What we don't know
about her: Almost everything else." To read the complete text of
this National Geographic article for high-school students and grownups,
click on the full article link just below the intro quote. Writer Margaret
Talbot follows Sacagawea's life as it is recorded in the journals of
Lewis and Clark, and combats common misconceptions with help from Sacagawea
expert Amy Mossett and historian Carolyn Gilman.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0302/feature4/
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The
Original Peacemakers
The
original Americans, like all human communities, were people of both peace
and war, but modern America has refused to put a realistic face on the
Indian experience. Images of Native American history are distorted by
white guilt, romanticism, commercialization, and basic lack of information
http://www.goshen.edu/mcarchives/Features/JuhnkeSchrag.html
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Pomp - The
True Story
He’s cute, he’s sleepy, and he’s in your pocket.
He’s Pomp—the napping little baby on the new Sacagawea dollar coin.
http://pompstory.home.mindspring.com/
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PreColumbian
Arawaks
Columbus did not discover a lost or unknown land.
There was a flourishing civilization of native Americas. The primary group
was the Arawak/Taino Indians.
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/history/precolumbian/tainover.htm
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Red
Cloud
As a warrior and a statesman, Red Cloud's
success in confrontations with the United States government marked him
as one of the most important Lakota leaders of the nineteenth century.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/redcloud.htm
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Red
Rock Elementary - Red Cloud
Red Cloud Links from Red Rock Elementary School
http://www.rr.gmcs.k12.nm.us/redcloud.htm
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Sacagawea
Sacagawea is historically known as the Shoshone
Indian woman who accompanied the Corps of Discovery as an interpreter.
http://www.montanaphotos.com/Corps_of_Discovery/Sacagawea.html
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Sarah Winnemucca
(to find the bio of Sarah, click on Biographies,
alphabetical, W)
Sarah Winnemucca's birth coincided with the beginning
of an era of dramatic historical changes for her people, changes in which
she would play an important and often thankless role. She worked throughout
her life to communicate between her people and the white people, to defend
Paiute rights, and to create understanding.
http://www.nevadawomen.org/
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Send
Sarah to Washington
Every state in the union is allowed two statues
of its noteworthy people in the Capitol in Washington, DC. Nevada has
only one so far, of Senator Pat McCarran. There is a growing movement
to make Sarah Winnemucca Nevada's second statue. A bill has been introduced
in the Legislature and is gaining support.
http://www.greatbasinweb.com/archives/winnemucca.html
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Seth Eastman:
Painting the Dakota
Seth Eastman: Painting the Dakota is a story
of art crossing the boundaries of culture and time. Learn about artist
and military officer Seth Eastman's life and the traditions of the Dakota
he depicted, through Eastman's artwork, essays, and interviews with Dakota
elders.
http://www.tpt.org/setheastman/
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Sequoyah
Most historians credit Sequoyah, the
most famous Cherokee, with the invention of the syllabary. However, some
oral historians contend that the written Cherokee language is much, much
older. But even if there was an ancient written Cherokee language, it
was lost to the Cherokees until Sequoyah developed the syllabary. The
development of the syllabary was one of the events which was destined
to have a profound influence on our tribe’s history. This extraordinary
achievement marks the only known instance of an individual creating a
totally new system of writing.
http://www.powersource.com/gallery/people/sequoyah.html
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Sioux
participants in the battle of the Little Big Horn
See who was there
http://www.montana.edu/wwwfpcc/tribes/sioux.html
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Thomas
Banyacya Hopi Traditional Elder
My name is Banyacya. I am a member of the Hopi sovereign nation. Traditional
Hopi follow the spiritual path that was given to us by Massau'u the Great
Spirit.
http://www.alphacdc.com/banyacya/banyacya.html
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USA:
Geronimo, His own story
The main body of this hypertext comes from a number of USIA-publications
An Outline of American History, An Outline of the American Economy, An
Outline of American Government, and An Outline of American Literature.
The text of these Outlines has not been changed, but they have been enriched
with hypertext-links to relevant documents, original essays, other Internet
sites, and to other Outlines. A number of contributors have prepared additional
texts and links for the project. And this project will grow als long as
we find new texts and volunteers who are willing to contribute. You can
help this WWW-project in collective authoring by contributing texts or
by sponsoring.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/geronimo/geronixx.htm
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Who
Were the Mound-Builders?
Most people are aware of the great civilizations
of Egypt and Mexico, but few, realize there were great civilizations in
North America as well.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6558/mound1.html
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Words
of Tecumseh
"The way, the only way to stop this
evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right
in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided."
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/shawnee.html
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