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Native American History and Genealogy - Access Genealogy. Essential Links Indian Tribes of the United States An extensive cross reference to our tribal pages on AccessGenealogy.

Native American History and Genealogy - Access Genealogy

What was initially a large exhaustive list of resources found at AccessGenealogy for each tribe in the United States is being converted into a cross reference for the tribal pages themselves. » Listen to the Radio Show Archive Alex Jones. Simon Peter versus Simon the Sorcerer. This is a great expose by the late Dr.

Simon Peter versus Simon the Sorcerer

E.L. Martin. It documents the true history of the Samaritans, the meaning of the word "peter" in the ancient world and the "church" that was established at Rome by Simon the Sorcerer. Lindsey Williams. The Difference between Aliens, Demons and Fallen Angels. 60,000 Americans coercively sterilized. 60,000 Americans coercively sterilized Sterilisation Native American See: Sterilisation by vaccination The Canadian Holocaust Native American [vid 2011 Nov] North Carolina's sterilization program North Carolina sterilization program targeted women, young girls, and blacks.

60,000 Americans coercively sterilized

Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967. The state ordered that immediately after giving birth, she should be sterilized. Doctors cut and tied off her fallopian tubes. Orrin's Website. Americas’ natives have European roots. Kelly Graf The remains of a boy from palaeolithic Siberia — shown here in a burial reconstruction at the Hermitage Museum in St.

Americas’ natives have European roots

Petersburg — revealed that he had European genes. The 24,000-year-old remains of a young boy from the Siberian village of Mal’ta have added a new root to the family tree of indigenous Americans. While some of the New World's native ancestry clearly traces back to east Asia, the Mal’ta boy’s genome — the oldest known of any modern human — shows that up to one-third of that ancestry can be traced back to Europe. Ashes to houses - High Country News. By Jonathan Thompson Nageezi is a small settlement on the far eastern side of the Navajo Nation in northern New Mexico.

Ashes to houses - High Country News

It’s classic high-desert country, with ponderosa pines and sagebrush and beige cliffs, along with the smattering of run-down housing so often seen on reservations. Welcome to the Navajo Nation Special Diabetes Project. Native American encounters. Although a fraction of its pre-Columbian size, there are more than three million Native Americans from 500 tribes, speaking some 175 languages and residing in every region of the United States.

Native American encounters

Not surprisingly, North America’s indigenous people are an extremely diverse bunch with unique customs and beliefs, moulded in part by the landscapes they inhabit – from the Inuit living in the frozen tundra of Alaska, to the many tribes of the arid, mountainous Southwest. Culturally speaking, America’s tribes today grapple with questions about how to prosper in contemporary America while protecting their traditions from erosion and their lands from further exploitation, and how to lift their people from poverty while maintaining their sense of identity and the sacred.

Living in Proces - Anne Wilson-Schaef Ph.D. Becoming the Writer You Are After many requests, I've decided to do another Writers Retreat, Becoming The Writer You Are.

Living in Proces - Anne Wilson-Schaef Ph.D.

My belief and experience is that if you want to write, all you need to do is tap into the process of becoming the writer you are. Living in Process - Overview of Workshops. Becoming the Writer You Are A Workshop by Anne Wilson Schaef After many requests, I've decided to do another Writers Retreat, Becoming The Writer You Are.

Living in Process - Overview of Workshops

My belief and experience is that if you want to write, all you need to do is tap into the process of becoming the writer you are. I've done these retreats all over the world and they not only have been fun and exciting, but so far, everyone has finished them knowing they are a writer and we even have produced several award-winning and published writers. This one will be June 14-20, 2014 at Boulder Hot Springs in Boulder, Montana. For more information or to register click here or email wsa@gte.net - Link to Boulder Hot Springs. Native American Scholarships. American Indian College Fund. Almost without hope - 2013 FALL. In the emergency room of the Rosebud Indian Health Service Hospital, suicide attempts by drug overdose are seen nearly nightly.

Almost without hope - 2013 FALL

Alcohol-related car accident injuries fill many of the small hospital’s beds, competing for space with tuberculosis, pneumonia and liver and kidney failure. Diabetes is common, leading to loss of life and limb. Medical School Home - USD. The Pine Ridge Project. …or how to build a house for about $25 per square foot!

The Pine Ridge Project

This winter we are engaged in the planning process for a major outreach project on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where we intend to build a small 2 bedroom house. This exciting project will challenge us on many levels: technologically, logistically, and financially. In the months ahead we will be working on creative solutions to meet these challenges, as well as asking our friends and supporters for help (more on that later…).

The Pine Ridge Reservation is the ancestral home of the Lakota Nation. While visually striking, it is a challenging place to live. The need for warm housing on the reservation is clear. 1) Overhead: House Alive has almost no overhead costs. Book Discussion on [Andrew Jackson: A Life and Times] The Presidency: Andrew Jackson & Crisis Management. Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands - About the Forest. The Nebraska National Forest began as an experiment. University of Nebraska botany professor Dr. Charles E. Bessey, with the assistance of Gifford Pinchot, first Forest Service Chief, convinced President Theodore Roosevelt to set aside two treeless tracts of Nebraska sandhills as “forest reserves”. New battle for Wounded Knee: sale of massacre site exposes tribal tensions.

Horses are sacred to Native Americans. For Kevin Yellow Bird Steele, one of the tribal leaders of the Oglala Sioux, there are few places in America as inappropriate as the Pine Ridge reservation for a horse slaughterhouse. "Horses are our friends," said Steele, who has been on the tribal council for 20 years. "A lot of people here think killing horses is wrong. " He said his view was widely shared on the South Dakota reservation, one of the biggest in America. A proposal to built a horse slaughterhouse at Pine Ridge is one of many contentious issues that have emerged at the reservation over the last few months, a reservation that has received the closest media attention since 1973, when a confrontation between Native Americans and the FBI left three dead.

120303Littlemoon. Biography Book Review: They Called Me Uncivilized: The Memoir of an Everyday Lakota Man from Wounded Knee by Walter Littlemoon, Jane Ridgway. National Museum of the American Indian. Chattahoochee Indian Heritage Center - Fort Mitchell, Alabama. Best of America - What Unites These States? Philip Caputo traveled from Key West, Florida, to Deadhorse, Alaska, asking everyday Americans what holds our country together. In the end, it all came down to one beautiful word. William Brinson for Reader’s Digest/Courtesy Philip Caputo. Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway - New Mexico Tourism - Travel & Vacation Guide. The Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway has a taste of everything that's New Mexico.

It links the oldest continuously occupied residence in New Mexico, Taos Pueblo, with Angel Fire, which was incorporated in 1986. It is home to the United States' first memorial to Vietnam War veterans. It passes by Elizabethtown, New Mexico's first incorporated town, now a ghost town. Buffalo Tales: The Near-Extermination of the American Bison, Native Americans and the Land, Nature Transformed, TeacherServe. Buffalo. Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands - About the Forest.