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.

Native American culture is rich in myths and legends that were used to explain natural phenomena.

Columbia was settled in Pre-Columbian times by the mound-building Mississippian culture of Native Americans.

One scholar wrote about the detective novels of Tony Hillerman, set among the Native American population around New Mexico, " many American readers have probably gotten more insight into traditional Navajo culture from his detective stories than from any other recent books.

He travelled widely across Europe, and in 1971 visited America for the first time, meeting some of the Native Americans whose culture had long been a source of fascination for him.

It has been hailed as one of the few films made by a Caucasian that presents an authentic Native American culture and character, and Jarmusch stands by it as such, though it has attracted both praise and castigation for its portrayal of the American West, violence, and especially Native Americans.

During his early life, he experienced Native American culture while on surveying trips with his father.

Sides said that Carson believed the Native Americans needed reservations as a way of physically separating and shielding them from white hostility and white culture.

At about the same time as the appearance of the Greek labyrinth, a topologically identical pattern appeared in Native American culture, the Tohono O ' odham labyrinth which features I ' itoi, the " Man in the Maze ".

Self-reporting opens the door to " box checking " by people who despite not having a substantial relationship to Native American culture innocently or fraudulently " check the box " for Native American.

On August 15, 2011 the American Bar Association passed a resolution recommending to law schools that supporting information such as evidence of tribal enrollment or connection with Native American culture be required.

A number of 19th and 20th-century United States and Canadian painters, often motivated by a desire to document and preserve Native culture, specialized in Native American subjects.

During this time, some fiction writers were informed about and sympathetic to Native American culture.

Roles of Native Americans were limited and not reflective of Native American culture.

The Spanish reintroduction of the horse to North America in the 17th century and Native Americans ' learning to use them greatly altered the natives ' culture, including changing the way in which they hunted large game.

Native Americans began slowly to adopt white culture.

Native American identity has historically been based on culture, not just biology, as many American Indian peoples adopted captives from their enemies and assimilated them into their tribes.

The journalist Mary Annette Pember notes that identifying with Native American culture may be a result of a person's increased interest in genealogy, the romanticization of the lifestyle, and a family tradition of distant Native American ancestors.

* Native Americans in popular culture

Phoebe also realized the importance of such a museum in preserving Native Californian culture, which was rapidly disappearing at the hands of white settlers.

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.

Native copper, however, was found worldwide, along with silver, gold and platinum, which were also used to make tools, jewelry, and other objects since Neolithic times.

The inner bark of the alder, as well as red osier dogwood, or chokecherry, was also used by Native Americans in their smoking mixtures, known as kinnikinnick, to improve the taste of the bearberry leaf.

Smith led expeditions to explore the regions surrounding Jamestown, and it was during one of these that the chief of the Powhatan Native Americans captured Smith.

At the beginning of the war, Pike was appointed as Confederate envoy to the Native Americans.

This was an important travel corridor for Tlingit and Haida Native peoples, as well as gold-rush era steamships.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ) was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 23, 1971, the largest land claims settlement in United States history.

* The Alaska Native Allotment Act was revoked and as yet unborn Native children were excluded.

" Native Experience " was produced by Adrian Redmond of Channel 6 Television in Denmark.

The racial makeup of the city was 98. 10 % White, 0. 46 % Black or African American, 0. 08 % Native American, 0. 11 % Asian, 0. 02 % Pacific Islander, 0. 43 % from other races, and 0. 80 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the town was 93. 98 % White, 3. 42 % Black or African American, 0. 30 % Native American, 1. 19 % Asian, 0. 05 % Pacific Islander, 0. 46 % from other races, and 0. 60 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 75 % White, 17. 93 % Asian, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 2. 97 % African American, 0. 06 % Native American, 1. 58 % from other races, and 2. 42 % from two or more races.

Broadway was originally the Wickquasgeck Trail, carved into the brush destination of Manhattan by its Native American inhabitants.

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first Native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

The racial makeup of Berkeley was 66, 996 ( 59. 5 %) White, 11, 241 ( 10. 0 %) Black or African American, 479 ( 0. 4 %) Native American, 21, 690 ( 19. 3 %) Asian ( 8. 4 % Chinese, 2. 4 % Indian, 2. 1 % Korean, 1. 6 % Japanese, 1. 5 % Filipino, 1. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Pakistani, 0. 3 % Thai, 0. 2 % Nepalese ), 186 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 4, 994 ( 4. 4 %) from other races, and 6, 994 ( 6. 2 %) from two or more races.

Also, the water from the local spring was so good that the local Native Americans believed it had medicinal properties.

The racial makeup of the city was 66. 60 % White, 11. 70 % Black or African American, 0. 20 % Native American, 15. 10 % Asian, 0. 01 % Pacific Islander, 2. 10 % from other races, and 4. 30 % from two or more races.

The area that would become Concord was originally settled thousands of years ago by Abenaki Native Americans called the Pennacook.

The racial makeup of the city was 91. 8 % White, 2. 2 % Black or African American, 0. 3 % Native American, 3. 4 % Asian, 0. 0 % Pacific Islander, 0. 4 % from some other race, and 1. 8 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 96. 55 % White, 0. 21 % Black or African American, 0. 92 % Native American, 0. 63 % Asian, 0. 03 % Pacific Islander, 0. 28 % from other races, and 1. 38 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 91. 32 % White, 2. 71 % Black or African American, 0. 13 % Native American, 3. 23 % Asian, 0. 05 % Pacific Islander, 1. 39 % from other races, and 1. 19 % from two or more races.

During the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, who had taken the place of the Miami and Sauk and Fox peoples.