It’s a tragedy that only today is Native American culture truly beginning to be appreciated. Some of this is evidence in the organic food movement, and of the biodynamic food movement, which has to do with planting crops in relationship to the lunar cycle. Many of these practices originated in Native American cultures. Fertilizer for [...]
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Learning Peace and Fighting Prejudice
We can learn a lot from our ancestors and through our history books. The most important thing that we should learn, however, is to not discriminate anyone period. Any sort of prejudice related to race, ethnicity, gender, or skin color should be eliminated and we should treat people equally. If we overcome this type of [...]
The Native Americans and the Environment
There are few nations who have had such a close relationship with the physical environment. Before settlers changed their lives, they all lived in relatively small units living very close to the earth. In fact native Americans were defined by the land, a small selection of sacred places shaping their world. To them there [...]
American Indians Should Look To The Future Not The Past
The error in the 1990 Census was corrected in 2000, which is good. However, to continue to complain about the omission in 1990 serves no purpose: it is not possible to turn the clock back. I admit that, as an outsider from the UK, I find it difficult to understand your arguments. It is not [...]
Rock Art
Hiking through the savage beauty of the Southwestern desert, one may be lucky enough to come across ancient, cryptic engravings upon the red rock. Petroglyphs, they are called, relics of the Native American shamans and their commune with the supernatural world. Most rock art was made by shamans, and they almost always describe their otherworldly [...]
Getting The American Indian History Straight
Throughout the twentieth century American Indians have been dealt with as though still living in the nineteenth century, as if American Indian societies are resistant to the change and evolution within communities all over the world. Now as we near the twenty-first century there is a growing awareness that almost an entire century of knowledge [...]
