Experts in Native American rights often suggest comparing legal system in US and New Zealand. various differences in legal rights have made a huge difference in terms of native Maori survival and nowadays they are counted as equals and having as much rights as anyone else in the country. However, that still is not the [...]
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Cultures and Travel Writing
The importance of maintaining a culture or identity is obvious, it cannot afford to become lost, however, globalisation is making it harder and harder to preserve. Globalisation has given us a warped view of the world, and when we think of Native Americans we picture the stereotypical headdress, alongside casinos. We forget about any [...]
Culture and Surrounding States
One of the fascinating things about the Native experience to me and my wine gift basket business is how they are negatively affected by the nature of their surrounding communities. Out of the California capital city of Sacramento, there are a number of tribes which still live incredibly well. I think one of the reasons [...]
Native American DNA Survey
There have been some intersting conclusions from the latest in a big survey of Native American DNA just conducted. One of these conclusions is that the New World actually experienced three waves of major settlements. The majorty of the indigenous Americans all descend from a group of migrants that over 15000 years ago moved from [...]
Why Native Americans love the iPad
Although Native Americans are still independent and proud of their heritage, their life is very different nowadays as compared to many centuries ago. The history of Native Americans has experienced sad events in recent times but they still respect nature by taking care of their land and being proud of their tribe and roots. The [...]
Searching for Indian Ancestors – Part One
If you’re interested in doing some genealogical research for any native Indian relations here’s some tips to get you started. First of all whatever anyone tells you – you do need a computer. The days of long pointless visits to organizations who turn out to have no information are gone. If there’s information out [...]
Setting Up an Informational Website
For many native American communities, communication is not really a problem as they all live very close to each other. However many tribes particularly in the North of the country are spread out over a huge areas – keeping in touch can be a problem. Setting up events and meetings to keep the community together [...]
Native American language & culture with iPhone Apps
Though a number of people have developed interest in learning foreign languages, the challenge has been that they lack something that will motivate and give them the necessary impetus to go on and on. If it has been your dream to learn Native American language, culture and history, you had better consider buying a Smartphone. [...]
Alternative Medicine
I was having a talk with my Manhattan Chiropractor the other day and he told me he was planning a trip to visit a series of Navajo healers next Christmas. It was interesting because he isn’t a guy I thought would be into alternative medicine on the extreme, he always presents his ideas with hard [...]
Songs from the Heart
Many immigrants from Europe to America lost their original languages within 3 generations. This was done so intentionally in order to fit in with the new society being created in the USA which was based around speaking English. The same cannot be said for the languages of the Native American tribes. For many years Native [...]
