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.

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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.

Native Americans used cranberries in a variety of foods, especially for pemmican, wound medicine and dye.

A large number of Native and non-Native households rely on subsistence foods, such as salmon, moose, caribou, bear, waterfowl and berries.

Modern day native peoples retain a rich body of traditional foods, some of which have become iconic of present-day Native American social gatherings ( for example, frybread ).

The general increased diabetes prevalence among Native Americans has been hypothesized as the result of the interaction of genetic predisposition ( the thrifty phenotype or thrifty genotype as suggested by anthropologist Robert Ferrell in 1984 ) and a sudden shift in diet from traditional agricultural goods towards processed foods in the past century.

Due to similarities in treatment under colonialism, many Native American communities throughout the continent consume many similar foods items with some emphasis an local ingredients.

Native Americans did visit the mountain regularly to gather acorns and other foods or to hunt game.

There was a deciduous forest with many varieties of nut trees, Native Americans collected these foods.

The students were from Native owned lodges from all across Canada that were interested in using native foods on their menus.

Many of the early European settlers in the South learned Native American cooking methods, and so cultural diffusion was set in motion for the Southern dish.

Some Native American tribes and bands make bowls, cooking slabs, and other objects from soapstone ; historically, this was particularly common during the Late Archaic archaeological period.

Louisiana Creole cuisine is a style of cooking originating in Louisiana which blends French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Native American, and African influences, as well as general Southern cuisine.

The original form of covered cooking is the earth oven, simply a covered pit with a fire built in it, demonstrated in techniques such as the Polynesian umu, the central Asian tandoori, and the Native American clambake.

The cuisine has a history dating back before the colonial period when the Native Americans had a rich and diverse cooking style for an equally diverse amount of ingredients.

The tuckahoe was pounded into pulp by local Native Americans and used for cooking and baking, as flour, which served as an ingredient in their cornbread.

Native Americans were using ground corn for cooking long before European explorers arrived in the New World.

* Amherst and Smallpox Blankets-Excerpts from actual letters in which Lord Jeffery Amherst approves smallpox plan ( dated 16 July 1763 ) and discusses other methods of killing Native Americans with Colonel Henry Bouquet.

The government had sent them to teach farming methods to the Native Americans.

The Native Americans of Wapakoneta adopted the agricultural methods that the missionaries from the Society of Friends had introduced to them.

In some Native American tribes at the time of contact with American colonists it was customary for men and women to remove all bodily hair using these methods.

* Geographers have analyzed the techniques and methods to help locate historical sites in Victoria, Canada, and archaeological sites in the American Southwest, concluding that ancient Native Americans also considered astronomy and landscape features.

But, there is not clear evidence of this from efforts to use traditional comparative linguistic methods to classify indigenous Native American languages.

It has several totem poles and exhibits demonstrating traditional Native American artwork and construction methods.

This practice originates from traditional gathering methods used by Native Alaskans from southeast Alaska, specifically the Tlingit people.

More recently, Hrdlicka's methods have come under scrutiny and criticism with regard to his treatment of Native American remains.

As bishop, Palafox y Mendoza distinguished himself by his efforts to protect the Native Americans from Spanish cruelty, forbidding any methods of conversion other than persuasion.