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

Category: Native American history of Nevada

Category: Native American history of New Mexico

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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.

* 1966 – Sherman Alexie, Native American author and comedian

* Tracks ( novel ), written by Native American author Louise Erdrich

During the original debate over the amendment Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan — the author of the Citizenship Clause — described the clause as having the same content, despite different wording, as the earlier Civil Rights Act of 1866, namely, that it excludes Native Americans who maintain their tribal ties and " persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.

* January 8 – Charles Alexander Eastman, Native American author, physician, reformer, helped found the Boy Scouts of America ( b. 1858 )

* October 7 – Sherman Alexie, Native American author

* February 19 – Charles Alexander Eastman, Native American author, physician, reformer, helped found the Boy Scouts of America ( d. 1939 )

* William Harjo LoneFight ( b. 1966 ), author, president of Native American Services, languages and cultural activist

Johnson was referenced in the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and he is mentioned in the 1940 book Native Son by author Richard Wright.

In Legendary Connecticut, author David Philips asserts that the Moodus noises were the source of an indigenous religious cult important to local Native Americans.

" The author Henry W. Longfellow mentions Osseo in one of his Native American legends contained in his poem " The Song of Hiawatha ".

* Richard Wright, novelist, author of Black Boy and Native Son, was born in Rucker Plantation in Roxie, Mississippi, twenty-two miles east of Natchez.

He is also the author of On Native Ground ( University of Oklahoma Press, 1997 ; 2nd ed.

* Major Israel McCreight-notable in American history as an expert on Native American culture and policy and the author of President Theodore Roosevelt ’ s conservation policy on public education

Guatemalan author William Spindler's article, “ Magic realism: a typology ,” suggests that there are three kinds of magic realism, which however are by no means incompatible: European ‘ metaphysical ’ magic realism, with its sense of estrangement and the uncanny, exemplified by Kafka ’ s fiction ; ‘ ontological ’ magical realism, characterized by ‘ matter-of-factness ’ in relating ‘ inexplicable ’ events ; and ‘ anthropological ’ magical realism, where a Native worldview is set side by side with the Western rational worldview.

In the English speaking world, major authors include British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, African American novelists Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor, Latinos / as Ana Castillo, Rudolfo Anaya, and Helena Maria Viramontes, Native American authors Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie ; English author Louis de Bernières and English feminist writer Angela Carter.

Davis, a prolific writer of letters to medical societies, purported to be a retired US Army surgeon living in Caughnawaga, Quebec ( now called Kahnawake ), author of a controversial paper on the obstetrical habits of Native American tribes which was suppressed and unpublished.

According to author Simon Broughton, the composer and song collector Kodály identified songs that " apparently date back 2, 500 years " in common with the Mari people of Russia ; and, as well as the Mari, the ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl indicates similarities in traditional Hungarian music with Mongolian and Native American musical styles.

George Catlin ( July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872 ) was an American painter, author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.

He was the first author to teach Native rights at Harvard University.

* William Harjo LoneFight, noted Native American author, entrepreneur and social critic

Ceremony remains one of the Native American novels featured most on college and university syllabi, and one of the few individual works by any Native American author to have received book-length critical assessments.

: For the Native American author of the same name, see Mourning Dove ( author )