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Niuam (Comanche) fan with sun and Morning Star designs (detail), ca. 1880. Oklahoma. 2/1617
Published August 20, 2017
Editor’s Note: This article was first published on the Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian’s website. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
BY DENNIS W ZOTIGH / CURRENTS / 20...
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Turtle Snaps Back ep 2 White Dog
As indigenous Native Americans we are not only denied by our communities we are often attacked by other groups of Natives who believe they are the only true inheritors of this great legacy.In...
HISTORY OF EDGECOMBE COUNTY
NORTH CAROLINA
J. Kelly Turner and
Jno. L. Bridgers, Jr.
RALEIGH
Edwards & Broughton Printing Co. 1920
Copyright 1920
J. Kelly Turner JUN 2 1920
TO THE MAKERS OF EDGECOMBE COUNTY HISTORY
— PAST...
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An episode of PHILADELPHIA: THE GREAT EXPERIMENT
For centuries, the land that will become Philadelphia is home to the Lenni Lenape people. The rich soil and rivers support a peaceful civilization, but in the 1600's Dutch settlers assert their rights...
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Bill Blakemore
The Family of Man
Copyright 1987, San Francisco ChronicleFans found it surprising in 1980 when Kubrick turned out a movie that was apparently no more than a horror film. The action took place at the Overlook Hotel in Colorado,...
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Tribal rights of Black Native Americans explored in new documentary
by Charles Hallman
(Photo courtesy of World Channel)
A decades-long “epic civil rights battle” between one of the wealthier Native American tribes and its descendants is highlighted in a documentary on public television...
Do American Indians Celebrate the 4th of July?
The National Museum of American Indian asks do American Indians celebrate the 4th of July and let their readers tell their stories about the day
Dennis W. Zotigh • July 4, 2017
The following was originally posted...
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"What to the Slave is 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
by Frederick Douglass
A speech given at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852
Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens:
He...
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Constitution of Turtle Island Indigenous Peoples
con·sti·tu·tion
ˌkänstəˈt(y)o͞oSH(ə)n/
noun
a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
synonyms:
charter, social code, law;
bill of rights;
rules, regulations, fundamental principles
"the constitution guarantees our rights"
A Constitution...
Devastation of a tribal community....
In 1964 the Ford Motor Corporation had purchased nearly 900 acres of land within the Ramapo Mountains. This land was the former site of the Ringwood mines complex, that provided iron for every war, from...