Category: Place names of Native American origin in Alabama

From its beginnings in the early 19th century through the early 20th century, anthropology in the United States was influenced by the presence of Native American societies.

Cultural anthropology in the United States was influenced greatly by the ready availability of Native American societies as ethnographic subjects.

Kroeber and Sapir's focus on Native American languages helped establish linguistics as a truly general science and free it from its historical focus on Indo-European languages.

Aztlan Underground were nominated for four Native American Music Award categories for the Nammys 2010.

* Native American hip hop

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In this week, members of the Penobscot Tribe from all over Maine venture to the Penobscot Indian Island Reservation in Old Town and take part in games, Native American arts and crafts, pow-wows, cook-outs, etc.

Ancient Pueblo peoples or Ancestral Pueblo peoples were an ancient Native American culture centered on the present-day Four Corners area of the United States, comprising southern Utah, northern Arizona, northwest New Mexico, and southern Colorado.

Category: Native American history of Arizona

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Category: Native American history of New Mexico

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* Many traditional Native American religions are fundamentally animistic.

Category: Place names of Native American origin in Alabama

* 1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father.

A polarizing figure who dominated the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s, as president he dismantled the Second Bank of the United States and initiated ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of Native American tribes from the Southeast to west of the Mississippi River.

* 1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

Since then, American English has been influenced by the languages of West Africa, the Native American population, Spanish, and immigration.

During the 1930s, the ACLU started to engage in work combating police misconduct and Native American rights.

Early Native Americans utilized a number of cooking methods in early American Cuisine, that have been blended with early European cooking methods to form the basis of American Cuisine.

The Native American cuisine became part of the cookery style that the early colonists brought with them.

By May 6, 1938 excellent sales had provided him with enough money to move to Harlem, where he began writing Native Son ( 1940 ).

The Spanish Roman Catholic Church, needing the natives ' labor and cooperation, evangelized in Quechua, Nahuatl, Guaraní and other Native American languages, contributing to the expansion of these indigenous languages and equipping some of them with writing systems.

* Another form of Bilingual Education is a type of Dual Language program that has students study in two different ways: 1 ) A variety of academic subjects are taught in the students ' second language, with specially trained bilingual teachers who can understand students when they ask questions in their native language, but always answer in the second language ; and 2 ) Native language literacy classes improve students ' writing and higher-order language skills in their first language.

While her writing was not published formally in her lifetime ( except as Schoolcraft appropriated it under his own name ), Jane Johnston Schoolcraft has been recognized as " the first Native American literary writer, the first known Indian woman writer, the first known Indian poet, the first known poet to write poems in a Native American language, and the first known American Indian to write out traditional Indian stories.

His Rolling Stone article about Lori Piestewa, the first Native American woman to die in combat fighting for the United States, was nominated for a National Magazine Award for feature writing.

She had several works published in the Native Companion ( Australia ), which was her first paid writing work, and by this time she had her mind set on becoming a professional writer.

In the same year she began writing articles on Native American life which were published in such popular periodicals as Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Monthly.

He remained determined, however, to continue the work among Native Americans despite the difficulties, writing in his diary:

Kinsella was criticized for writing from the point-of-view of Native people, appropriating their voice.

Falckner evidently believed that music was a very important element of missionary work, writing to Germany to ask for an organ, which he said would attract more Native American converts.

Silko claimed Erdrich had abandoned writing about the Native American struggle for sovereignty in exchange for writing " self-referential ," postmodern fiction.

At the time, Ethan Smith was writing View of the Hebrews ( 1823 ), one of many books written during the period speculating that Native Americans were of Hebrew origin.

Native speakers tend to use chunks of collocations and the ESL learners make mistakes with collocations in their writing / speaking which sometimes results in awkwardness.

" Trochaic is not a correct descriptor for Ojibwe oratory, song, or storytelling, but Schoolcraft was writing long before the study of Native American linguistics had come of age.

* Sequoyah Research Center is dedicated to collecting and archiving Native American writing and literature.

In 1703, Justus Falckner was ordained as pastor of the Gloria Dei Church ; Falckner evidently believed that music was a very important element of missionary work, writing to Germany to ask for an organ, which he said would attract more Native American converts.

* The Young Native Writers Essay Contest is a writing contest for Native American high school students and is designed to inspire honest portrayals of the richness of Native American life and history.

So influential was this notion that 300 years later Bancroft in his monumental Native Races began his discussion of circumcision by writing: " Whether the custom of circumcision, which has been the great prop of argument in favor of the Jewish origin of the Aztecs, really obtained among these people, has been doubted by numerous authors ," concluding that it probably existed in a " certain form among some tribes " ( p278 ).

While her writing was not published formally in her lifetime ( except as Schoolcraft appropriated it under his own name ), Jane Johnston Schoolcraft has been recognized as " the first Native American literary writer, the first known Indian woman writer, the first known Indian poet, the first known poet to write poems in a Native American language, and the first known American Indian to write out traditional Indian stories.

Classes in music, dance, theatre, visual arts, writing and Native American arts are offered to students from age 5 to adult.