Chief Seattle's Speech of 1854 is a powerful statement on the environment, culture, and the future of humanity.

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Tickets Membership PLEASE BE PATIENT. THE WEB SITE IS BEING RE-DESIGNED. SEE PRESS RELEASE: 10th ANNUAL AWARDS See the list of recipients of 9th Annual Awards. First Americans in the Arts is a non-profit organization created to recognize, honor and promote American Indian participation in the powerful arena of the entertainment industry. Incorporating areas of film, television, music and theater.

Disney's production of Pocahontas distorts history beyond recognition, and is slap in the fact to the Powhatan tribe. Find out the true Pocahontas story, and not the lies as told by Disney ...

Pocahontas Home: History: Pocahontas Pocahontas was an Indian princess, the daughter of Powhatan, the powerful chief of the Algonquian Indians in the Tidewater region of Virginia. She was born around 1595 to one of Powhatan's many wives. They named her Matoaka, though she is better known as Pocahontas, which means Little Wanton, playful, frolicsome little girl. Pocahontas probably saw white men ...

Chief Joseph Nez Perce (Nimiputimt) A long time ago, the Nimipu people were not many in number I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done. Good words do not last long unless they amount to something. Words do not pay for my dead people. They do not pay for my country, now overrun by white men. Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get ...

NATIVE OPINIONS ON Pocahontas Page Navigation Buttons--- Why is this page here Opinions of some Indian adults & kids about the movie. Plot summary--rather gushy and press release style from MOVIEWEB: Pocahontas, some screen-still graphics, too (not the ones I'm using). Here is a less gushy and shorter plot summary Pocahontas (1995)--from the InterNet movie database on the web, where you can ...

PEOPLE A-C Austin, Stephen F. Bent, William Big Foot Black Kettle Brannan, Samuel Brown, John Buffalo Bill Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nu ez Carson, Kit Chivington, John M. Chief Joseph Clark, William Clemens, Samuel Cody, William F. Coronado, Francisco Cortina, Juan Crazy Horse Crocker, Charles Crook, George Cushing, Frank Hamilton Custer, George Armstrong D-H I-R S-Z Black Kettle ( -1868) Few ...

Seeking information, FBI - 2.25.02 36 Years, Her Hands, Lies And Foundations Shifting - 2.24.02 Now what do we do - 2.22.02 Dedicated to the spirit of Annie Mae - 2.22.02 Former AIM activist reveals allegations in Anna Mae Aquash's murder - 6.16.00 Dreams of Justice - 2.27.00 Bank's condemns Anna's cousin - 12.7.99 The Lakota Oyate speaks - 9.28.99 A call from the Denver Police... Anna Mae was ...

The lives and times of the Apache chiefs, Cochise, Geronimo and Mangas Coloradas.

Cherokee warrior who devised the Cherokee alphabet. Working from 1809 until 1821, Sequoyah fought the leaders of the Cherokee nation to complete his syllabary.

Native American Arts Humanities and Culture, music, books, videos, incense, sweet grass, burners. To promote awareness and increase knowledge of the Indigenous people of Mother Earth.

Major Ridge led his people on the path of acculturation, only to betray them in the end by signing the Treaty of New Echota, which led to the Trail of Tears ...

This web site offers insight into Ely Parker: a Seneca chief, a legal scholar, an engineer, a Civil War hero, and a Cabinet-level commissioner -- and the price he paid for succes in two diferent worlds.

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Geronimo Goyathlay ( one who yawns ) Quotes from Geronimo I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling. The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the ...

Pocahontas Researcher: Rachel Sahlman Artist: Dick Strandberg Pocahontas was most likely born in Werawocomoco (what is now Wicomico, Gloucester County, Virginia) on the north side of the Pamaunkee (York) River, around the year 1595. Her true name was Matoaka, but that name was only used within her tribe. Native Americans believed harm would come to a person if outsiders learned of their tribal ...

Louis Riel Louis Riel, a leader of his people in their resistance against the Canadian government in the Canadian Northwest, is perhaps the most controversial figure in Canadian historiography. His life and deeds have spawned a massive and diverse literature. He was born in the Red River Settlement (in what is now Manitoba) in 1844. A promising student, he was sent to Montreal to train for the ...

Wilma Mankiller former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Wilma Mankiller, former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, lives on the land which was allotted to her paternal grandfather, John Mankiller, just after Oklahoma became a state in 1907. Surrounded by the Cherokee Hills and the Cookson Hills, she lives in a historically rich area where a person's worth is not determined ...

PEOPLE A-C D-H Eaton, Fred Field, Marshall Fletcher, Alice Gall Gibbon, John Gilpin, William Glidden, Joseph F. Goodnight, Charles Haywood, William Big Bill Hin-mah-too-yah- lat-kekt (Chief Joseph) Houston, Sam Howard, Oliver O. I-R S-Z Gall Pizi (c.1840-1894) A Hunkpapa chief who played a leading part in the Lakota's long war against the United States, Gall encouraged his people to accept ...

The name Tecumseh means Panther Crossing. About the time of Tecumseh's birth in 1768, there was a meteor and the Shawnee believed that Tecumseh was going to become important. Tecumseh's father was a Shawnee chief and Tecumseh was one of eight children. His father was killed in battle fighting the Americans when Tecumseh was young and his older siblings raised him. The loss of his father at a ...

Pocahontas: Icon At The Crossroads Of Race And Sex The Story The legend of Pocahontas has enjoyed wide popularity in American culture in a number of versions and in various genres since the early 17th century. Although little is known with any certainty about Pocahontas, stories, images, poems, songs, and dramas have been produced on all levels of culture celebrating the Indian Princess. As the ...

SITTING BULL IN MEMORY by Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner Mrs. Fanny Kelly was taken captive in July 1864 by a war party of Hunkpapa Sioux in Wyoming. During most of the five months she was held prisoner, Mrs. Kelly stayed in the lodgings of Sitting Bull, the famous leader as a guest, of his family, and I was treated as a guest, she wrote. He was uniformly gentle, and kind to his wife and children ...

Sitting Bull Hunkpapa Sioux (1831-1890) Sitting Bull, Lakota Medicine Man and Chief was considered the last Sioux to surrender to the U.S. Government. In the early 1850s, the Lakota (Sioux) had begun to feel the pressure of the white expansion into the Western United States. Sitting Bull did not participate in the resistance until 1863 when the settlers threatened the Hunkpapa hunting grounds.

Preface| Top| Map| Card| Surf| Family| Life| Forestry| Computers| Chief Seattle's Thoughts There are two versions of the speech of Seattle, chief of the Suquamish. Below is one version. The other follows. Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle, 1854. It is said that this version was written by Ted Perry and ...

ISHI: A Real-Life The Last Of The Mohicans All black & white photographs on this page are taken from the book Ishi In Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber. They are all there, but one ... There he stood ... tearfully straddling two worlds, bridging two cultures. For him there were three realities ... yesterday, today, tomorrow. Looking back he saw life; his youth, family, home, ... his world.

Tells the Thanksgiving story of Squanto, a Patuxet Indian who helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony to survive in their first difficult years. He is also known as Tisquantum. Other charcters mentioned are William Bradford, Miles Standish, Captain Thomas Hunt, and Captain Thomas Dermer.

Tell me when this page is updated TATANKA YOTANKA (Photo courtesy of JDK Chipps)) In 1831, life on the Great Plains was good for the Lakota. The land provided everything. There were bison which provided meat to eat, skins for shelter and clothing, and bones for utensils. Even the sinew served the buffalo hunter as bow strings. There were respected enemies against whom to prove one's valor: ...

Chief Seattle's Letter To All THE PEOPLE Chief Seattle, Chief of the Suquamish Indians allegedly wrote to the American Government in the 1800's - In this letter he gave the most profound understanding of God in all Things. Here is his letter, which should be instilled in the hearts and minds of every parent and child in all the Nations of the World: CHIEF SEATTLE'S LETTER The President in ...

Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation by Wilma Mankiller Former Chief of the Cherokee Nation April 2, 1993 -- Sweet Briar College Thank you very, very much for choosing to spend a little time with me tonight. I appreciate that. I'd like to introduce my husband, Charlie, who traveled with me from Oklahoma, who's here somewhere. There he is, right there. Some people don't know I'm married because his ...

A leader of the Cherokee until his murder in 1809, James Vann was one of the richest men in North Georgia at the start of the 19th Century ...

Tantoo Cardinal Tantoo is working on an official page. Just bookmark this page, because I hope she'll let me know as soon as it's up and I'll put the link here! Message board Tantoo's early history Northernstars Fanpage article Saskatchewan bio Filmography What A Character! bio Windspeaker profile Citzine: Hero profile TV month schedule Tantoo remarked on how old this article is, and so it's not ...

By Julia White Sacajawea (Boat Launcher) or Sacagawea (Bird Woman) - Shoshoni The Shoshoni (also Shoshone) lived in Idaho, parts of Utah and parts of Northern Nevada, and it is believed that Sacajawea was born in Eastern Idaho in what is now Salmon, Idaho. Everything about Sacajawea is mysterious from the correct spelling and meaning of her name, to the circumstances surrounding her death. Some ...

At The History Place - Great Speeches collection ...

Private Pierre Cruzatte was of French and Omaha Indian extraction. He enlisted with Lewis and Clark on May 16, 1804, at St. Charles (Missouri). Before enlisting, Cruzatte had formerly been a trader on the Missouri for the Chouteau fur interests. He could speak the Omaha language and was skilled in sign language, so was of valuable assistance to the captains at the Indian councils and encounters ...

The Pilgrims arrived in the New World in 1620. Before they had chosen a suitable site for their settlement, it was late in December. On Christmas Day, the first work party went on shore. Houses were built, and streets were laid out. The winter was an ordeal for the Pilgrims. Over 1/2 of them died before spring arrived. The Pilgrims had seen Indians only at a distance. On March 16, however, a ...

Describes and proposes reasons for how Ishi, the last wild Native American, was portrayed by the media of his time.

Description of a bow made by Ishi, the Last Yahi; an essay by Chris Watson.

A Newspaper Account of the Death of Sitting Bull December 15, 1890 The text below is excerpted from Looking Back at Wounded Knee 1890 by Prof. Robert Venables, Cornell University. Published in Northeast Indian Quarterly Spring 1990. It reads: The following quotes were printed in The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, a weekly newspaper published in Aberdeen, South Dakota. The first was published ...

Chief Ouray Historical Ute Leader Ignacio, Colorado He was a man of peace at a time of war between Indians and whites. Chief Ouray of the Tabeguache band led the Southern Ute Tribe during the mid 1800's - a time of great social and political change, a time when a proud people were uprooted and forced to accept resettlement. Yet, he is revered today as one of the Ute's greatest leaders - patient, ...