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About
This Internet site was created in the hope that all people, no matter what their own culture, may be able to find a bit of information that might be helpful in the understanding of American Indian Culture and other Native Cultures from all over our Mother which is called Earth!
Native People’s Cultures are as diverse as nature, but with good reason! Nature is our teacher and guide for walking the path of life! The Native Cultures teach that it is the human species responsibility to take care of our Mother! Only appreciation is asked, for what she gives us, in return for her care!
Progress is a wonderful thing! If we can keep some of the beliefs from the First People’s Cultures, that are alive and well, incorporated with the technology that leads to progress, it may help all peoples to live in a more harmonious world not only with Nature but with each other as well!
It is time to Celebrate and Appreciate the Diversity in the Human Species as we do in Nature! The rose is beautiful, but how long would its beauty be appreciated if it was the only species of flower we had to enjoy! It does not matter what name the Creator goes by or if you believe in one, many or none at all! The experience of a storm, rainbow, or just the sun rising and setting tells us there is a much Greater Power that speaks to all cultures and this Power that we call Nature survives because of diversity!
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Cherokee Word List A
English to Cherokee ~ Words and Phrases Beginning with "A" Abandon - Diyohisdi Abandoned - Duyosvgi Abase - Eladi igvnododi Abasement - Eladi nanvenehv Abate - Adadisvsedi Abated - Unadadisvselv Abatement - Anadadisvsehv Abator - Adadisvsehi Abdicate - Usulagotsvgi...
Cherokee Word List F
English to Cherokee ~ Words and Phrases Beginning with "F" Fable - Kanohesgi Fabricate - Galosvsdodi Face - Ukadv Faces - Dunakadv Facilities - Gvtanidasdi Fact - Yadvna udohiyu Faction - Dunadatlugv Factor - Ganotlvgi nugvwiyusv Factories - Gohusdi unotlvdi Factory -...
View From The Hogan – Notes from Big Mountain
Ya'a'tee As usual, I am behind schedule getting the next VFH out to you, so in the meantime I thought I would pass on some more words from the resistors. The first is a letter sent to the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs in 1991. Many of the Elders in the Big...
Chippewa Spearing/Netting Season Witness for Non-Violence Reactivated In Minnesota and Wisconsin
(Mille Lacs Lake, Minnesota) April 1997 Witness trainings are being held for the upcoming Chippewa spearing/ netting season around Mille Lacs Lake in Minnesota. Witnesses have been requested to help out by the Lac du Flambeau and Mille Lacs Bands. A January federal...
Demolition Derby
Cherokee Method for Tanning Hides
Cherokee Culture Notes Edited and Revised: August 27, 2000 Fact Sheet Author Unknown Edited by: Wendell Cochran, Tahlequah, OK Cherokee Method for Tanning Hides Mose Owl described this method. Step 1. Make a lye solution by putting one gallon of hickory ashes in a...
Native Americans should be “thrilled”
"To be used as mascots..." Editorial from the People's Voice The following was written in answer to the Greeley Tribunes question; Should Eaton High School change its team mascot because of concerns expressed by American Indians? To all human beings, Those who think...
“Cry Of The Earth” General Assembly, United Nations, New York
Prophecy Message Delivered and Submitted 11/22/93 at the "Cry Of The Earth" General Assembly, United Nations, New York Submitted by Martin Gashweseoma Hopi Caretaker of the Sovereign Hopi Nation For The Great Spirit, Massau'u We come here from the Sovereign Hopi...
ENOUGH! What happened to us at Big Mtn
ENOUGH! Statement by Leonard Benally in response to desecration of sacred Sundance Grounds site. To all the people Indigenous and non-indigenous people, On August 17th at 5:00 a.m. this was a disgrace, humiliating, and disregarded our right to pray which is supposed...
Hopi Stuff “Tree of Life” Into Chipper
"Hopi Tribal staff stuffed the Tree of Life into a woodchipper and haul the other remains away in trailers" Camp Ana Mae, the well-known site of Sun Dances , home to Louise Benally and her children at the foot of Big Mountain, Arizona has been bulldozed by Hopi Tribal...
Witnesses Observe Dismantlement of Site
Big Mountain, AZ - Yesterday, Friday, August 17, 2001, at approximately 5:00 a.m. Mountain Standard Time, the Office of Hopi Lands, Hopi Range Management, Resource Enforcement Services, Hopi Tribal Police, Navajo County Sheriff, and U.S. Department of the Interior’s...
Navajo Resisters Jeopardize Own Water Supplies
A May 10, 2001 letter circulated on the Internet from Caroline Tohannie, a Navajo residing on the HPL in the Tonalea area, to Marsha Monestersky requested her help in restoring the Tohannie's only water source, a local windmill. Tohannie alleged that the Hopi Rangers...
View From The Hogan XVIII – Notes and comments on Big Mountain
Ya'a'tee I have occasionally received criticisms that these writings of mine are too lengthy. Without wishing to go into a critique of "sound-bite" culture, or a discussion of the difference between being informed and being well informed, I thought I'd offer both a...
Clinton’s “Interference” In Mexico *From Wounded Knee to Chiapas*
According to the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations, US President Bill Clinton has just "interfered in Mexican internal affairs" by demanding an exhaustive investigation into the massacre which recently occurred in Chenalhó, in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Since...
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