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.

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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.

Cooking in the American West gets its influence from Native American and Mexican cultures, and other European settlers into the part of the country.

Including early European traders and other Native Alaskan cultures.

* " Native Experience " A four part television documentary series about the impact of oil and mineral development on the Native cultures of Alaska, dealing in particular with the historical background leading up to ANCSA and the experiences, memories and perceptions of both natives involved in the lands claim and their descendants today in rural Alaska.

Gumbo exemplifies the influence of African and Native American food cultures on Cajun cuisine.

Traditional stories from many Native American, First Nations, and Aboriginal cultures include a deity whose name is translated into English as " Coyote ".

The genre is most commonly found in Native American cultures where the myths frequently link the final emergence of people from a hole opening to the underworld to stories about their subsequent migrations and eventual settlement in their current homelands.

He became famous for his advocacy of the rights of Native Americans, whose cultures, especially in the Caribbean, he describes with care.

Among his substantial publications from this period were his book on " Time Perspective in the Aboriginal American Culture " ( 1916 ), in which he laid out an approach to using historical linguistics to study the prehistory of Native American cultures.

It was an important part of many Native American cultures which coexisted with the bird, both as a food source and as a symbolic item.

Many other Native American cultures also made hominy and integrated it into their diet.

In his two later-nineties films, he dwelt on different cultures ' experiences of violence, and on textual appropriations between cultures: a wandering Native American's love of William Blake, a black hit-man's passionate devotion to the Hagakure.

Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish, Native American ( Indian ) and African cultures that they are considered to be somewhat exceptional in the U. S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony.

Many Native cultures feature skin-walkers or a similar concept, wherein a shaman or warrior may, according to cultural tradition, take on an animal form.

During the period when White and de Bry were working, when Europeans were first coming into contact with Native Americans, Europeans were greatly interested in native American cultures.

" The five episodes explore the impact of King Philip's War on the northeastern tribes, the " Native American confederacy " of Tecumseh's War, the US-forced relocation of Southeastern tribes known as the Trail of Tears, the pursuit and capture of Geronimo and the Apache Wars, and concludes with the Wounded Knee incident, participation by the American Indian Movement, and the increasing resurgence of modern Native cultures since.

Most South American Native peoples were largely panentheistic as well ( as were ancient South East Asian and African cultures ).

From their cultures came one of the main staples of the Southern diet: corn ( maize ) – either ground into meal or limed with an alkaline salt to make hominy, in a Native American technology known as nixtamalization.

In some Eastern cultures, and in Native American traditions, the goal of ancestor veneration is to ensure the ancestors ' continued well-being and positive disposition towards the living and sometimes to ask for special favours or assistance.

Native indigenous cultures that lived within the continent of the Americas had already developed advanced civilizations that attest to thousands of years of human presence ; sophisticated engineering, irrigation, agriculture, religion and government existed before the arrival of the Spanish and the Portuguese.

North American hunting pre-dates the United States by thousands of years, and was an important part of many pre-Columbian Native American cultures.

Some Native Americans use soapstone for smoking pipes ; numerous examples have been found among artifacts of different cultures and are still in use today.

Much of what is known about pre-18th-century Native American cultures has come from records of Spanish expeditions.