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

Category: Native American history of Utah

Category: Native American archeology

* 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.

Beadwork is a quintessentially Native American art form, but ironically uses beads imported from Europe and Asia.

Most Native beadwork is created for tribal use but beadworkers also create conceptual work for the art world.

In full affluence of foreign and domestick Fame, admired by the expert in art, and by the learned in Science, courted by the great, caressed by Sovereign powers, and celebrated by distinguished Poets, his Native humility, modesty and Candour never forsook him, even on surprise or provocation, nor was the least degree of arrogance or assumption visible to the most scrutinizing eye, in any part of his Conduct or discourse.

The integrity of certain Native American artworks is protected by an act of Congress that prohibits representation of art as Native American when it is not the product of an enrolled Native American artist.

While popular in cinema and art for depictions of medieval European characters ( such as Robin Hood ), this style of quiver originated with Native American tribes of North America, and was never used in medieval Europe or Asia.

* August 27 – Ralph T. Coe, American art historian of Native American art

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the European cultural elite were discovering African, Micronesian and Native American art for the first time.

A separate gallery presented Northwest Coast Indian art, and featured a series of large paintings by Bill Holm introducing Northwest Native motifs.

The Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc., of Cherokee, North Carolina is the oldest continuing Native American art co-operative.

There are three Art Museums in Taos: Harwood Museum of Art, Taos Art Museum and Millicent Rogers Museum that provide art from the pueblo Native Americans, Taos Society of Artists and modern and contemporary artists of the Taos art colony.

The Plains Indians are an archetype in art and literature for all Native Americans.

Traditional design elements were formalized at the Santa Fe Indian School, defining authentic Native American art.

Like earlier artists, they portrayed the colorful New Mexican landscape and cultural influences, such as the " timelessness they perceived in Puebloan culture and the deep connection to the land they noted in the everyday life of both Native Americans and Hispanics influence experimentation and innovation in their own art.

Gorman opened " The Navajo Gallery " in 1968 on historic Ledoux Street, the first art gallery owned by a Native American in the United States.

The European cultural elite discovering the art of Africa, Micronesia, and Native Americans for the first time were fascinated, intrigued and educated by the newness, wildness and the stark power embodied in the art of those faraway places.

This relatively new category of art includes paintings, sculptures and sometimes Native American crafts.

These works are significant as they are the most informative illustrations of a Native American society of the Eastern seaboard, and predate the first body of " discovery voyage art " created in the late 18th century by the artists who sailed with Captain James Cook.

Category: Native American art