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American Indian History

Minnesota Historical Society Reflects on 150th Anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862

ICTMN Staff
August 15, 2012
This year marks the 150 th anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 and the Minnesota Historical Society is encouraging discussion and reflection about what it dubs “a tragic tim...

Sacred Sites Hearings Begin With Concerns Over Renewable Energy Projects

ICTMN Staff
August 14, 2012
The first in a series of hearings regarding sacred sites between the U.S. Interior Department and tribal leaders was held Monday in Albuquerque, New Mexico...

Wisconsin Tribes Struggle to Save Their Brothers the Wolves From Sanctioned Hunt

Mary Annette Pember
August 14, 2012
“Is nothing sacred anymore?” asked Mike Wiggins, chairman of the Bad River Ojibwe Tribe in Wisconsin, in reaction to the proposed wolf hunt in the state...

Documentary Follows Native Students Learning and Preserving Tewa Language

Vincent Schilling
August 14, 2012
In November 2009, Santa Fe Preparatory School in Santa Fe, New Mexico sent out a newsletter announcing a self-study curriculum in which Native teenagers would study the Tewa langua...

Many Californians Working to Revitalize Native Languages

ICTMN Staff
August 13, 2012
L. Frank Manriquez, Acjachemem/Rarámuri/Tongva, has been part of that effort for the past two decades...

Chocolate May Have Been More Than a Beverage to the Maya

ICTMN Staff
August 12, 2012
Long thought to be a beverage reserved for the ruling class and priests, archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History say chocolate could have been used f...

Archaeologists Uncover Hundreds of Bones in Unusual Aztec Burial in Mexico

ICTMN Staff
August 10, 2012
The remains of a young woman were found surrounded by 1,789 human bones in Mexico City’s Templo Mayor—a find that is the first of its kind in the Aztec culture according to researc...

Battle of the Little Bighorn Site For Sale

Simon Moya-Smith
August 09, 2012
Garryowen, Montana—a western town known the world over as the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn where, in 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his hubristic 7 th Cavalr...

NAJA Concerned About Mainstream Media's Portrayal of Native Americans

ICTMN Staff
August 08, 2012
Jeff Harjo, executive director of the Native American Journalists Association, released the following statement regarding the portrayal of Native Americans in mainstream media: "Th...

Maryland College Awarded Grant to Study Potomac River Archaeological Sites

ICTMN Staff
August 08, 2012
St...

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