His imagery ranges from 19th century Native leaders to pop icons including Janet Jackson and Brooke Shields.

The Initial Declaration was signed by 143 respected leaders from all of the world's major faiths, including Baha ' i Faith, Brahmanism, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Indigenous, Interfaith, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Native American, Neo-Pagan, Sikhism, Taoism, Theosophist, Unitarian Universalist and Zoroastrian.

" Medicine man " or " medicine woman " are English terms used to describe traditional healers and spiritual leaders among Native American and other indigenous or aboriginal peoples.

White leaders often viewed Native Americans as obstacles to economic and political progress, rather than as settlers in their own right.

Government and military officials, congressional leaders and Christian reformers alike all formed the belief that the assimilation of Native Americans into white American culture was top priority, it was the time for them to leave behind their tribal landholding, reservations, traditions and ultimately their Indian identity.

Little Turtle, or Mishikinakwa ( in Miami-Illinois ) ( c. 1747 – July 14, 1812 ), was a chief of the Miami people, and one of the most famous Native American military leaders of his time.

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Tribal leaders say Native American communities are being overwhelmed by gang violence and drug trafficking.

The treaty became controversial because the Native leaders had not been authorized by their tribal councils to cede lands.

After Stillman's defeat, American leaders like President Jackson and Secretary of War Lewis Cass would not consider a diplomatic solution ; they wanted a resounding victory over Black Hawk to serve as an example to other Native Americans who might consider similar uprisings.

Native Americans who lived in the Pacific Northwest ( primarily the Kwakiutl ), practiced the potlatch ritual, where leaders give away large amounts of goods to their followers, strengthening group relations.

In 1686 Solebury was finally signed over to the American settlers by 13 Native American tribe leaders.

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It was also used against domestic opponents of the invasion of Vietnam, labor leaders, and Native Americans.

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While Native American removal was, in theory, supposed to be voluntary, in practice great pressure was put on Native American leaders to sign removal treaties.

Some Native American leaders who had previously resisted removal now began to reconsider their positions, especially after Jackson's landslide re-election in 1832.

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Septum piercing was a popular trend among South Indian dancers ( Kuchipudi, Bharatnatyam ) and among certain Native American peoples in history ; the Shawnee leaders Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, for example, had such piercings.

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Following the northerly retreat of glaciers at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation over ten thousand years ago, human settlement by Native Americans or First Nations began in the Maritimes with Paleo-Indians during the Early Period, ending around six thousand years ago.

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.

Many faiths around the world — from Japanese Shinto and Chinese traditional religion, to certain African practices and the faiths derived from those in the Caribbean, to Native American beliefs — hold that ancestral or household spirits offer daily protection and blessings.

Native tribes along the Amazon River harvest the kapok fibre to wrap around their blowgun darts.

Mobilian Jargon ( also Mobilian trade language, Mobilian Trade Jargon, Chickasaw – Choctaw trade language, Yamá ) was a pidgin used as a lingua franca among Native American groups living along the Gulf of Mexico around the time of European settlement of the region.

The slave trade of Native Americans lasted only until around 1730.

Sun goddesses are found around the world ; in Arabia ( Al-Lat ), Australia ( Bila, Walo ), India ( Bisal-Mariamna, Bomong, Kn Sgni ) and Sri Lanka ( Pattini ); among the Hittites ( Wurusemu ), Egyptians ( Sekhmet ) and Babylonians ( Shapash ); in Native America, among the Cherokee ( Unelanuhi ), Natchez ( Wal Sil ), Inuit ( Malina ) and Miwok ( Hekoolas ).

Competitive swimming in Europe started around 1800, mostly using breaststroke and in 1873 John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native Americans, but substituting a scissor kick for the traditional flutter kick in order to reduce splashing.

A series of Native American groups inhabited the area from as early as 7000 BCE, most recently the Timbisha around 1000 AD who migrated between winter camps in the valleys and summer grounds in the mountains.

Native to many northern habitats, they have been introduced in many different waters around the United States, particularly in southern locations.

The recent history of the Valley is the history of human visitors, first Native Americans, then European settlers, then visitors from around the world.

The Piegan Blackfeet ( Aamsskáápipikani ( Southern Piikáni / Peigan ) or simply as Piikáni in Blackfoot ) are a tribe of Native Americans of the Algonquian language family based in Montana, having lived in this area since around 6, 500 BC.

Painted by James Daughtery of Weston as part of the Works Progress Administration program in 1935, the mural depicts Putnam, Greenwich's war hero, aiming his musket at snarling wolves while all around him Native Americans hurl tomahawks and men armed with guns and knives tussle.

Before Europeans arrived, the New Haven area was the home of the Quinnipiac tribe of Native Americans, who lived in villages around the harbor and subsisted off local fisheries and the farming of maize.

Native Americans mined copper in and around what would later be Houghton

The Great Sioux War of 1876 – 77 was also known as the Black Hills War, and was centered around the Lakota tribes of the Sioux, although several Native Americans believe that the primary target of the United States military was the Northern Cheyenne tribe.

One had taken place around June 5, 1876, on the Rosebud River in Montana, involving Agency Native Americans who had slipped away from their reservations to join the hostiles.

As this was the likely location of Native encampments, all Army elements were to converge around June 26 or 27, attempting to engulf the Native Americans.

Artifacts that have been found from some of the earliest human inhabitants of the Fairfield area are dated to be around five to six thousand years old, making them some of the oldest Native American settlements in Northern California.

The Mahican (/ məˈhikən /; also Mohican / moʊˈhikən /) are an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe, originally settled in the Hudson River Valley ( around Albany, NY ) and western New England.

However, sea urchins ( called uutuk in Alutiiq ) are commonly eaten by the Alaska Native population around Kodiak Island.

Thus on February 10, 1885, convinced that these were the descendants of the Lost Colony, he helped to pass the " Croatan bill ", that officially designated the Native American population around Robeson county as Croatan.

The area around present-day Columbia was originally populated by Native American tribes, most notably the Susquehannocks, who migrated to the area between 1575 and 1600 after separating from the Iroquois Confederacy.

The first settlement was around 1818, when the area was bought from Native Americans as part of the Jackson Purchase.