Discuss Native American affairs, issues, history and culture. http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 22 May 2013 21:04:02 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:04:02 Just how much did First Nations and other ancient Indigenous peoples share their mythology? It appears that certain aspects remained local to honor the individual tribal customs and land, while other aspects of these myths were shared for their appeal to universal values...

http://www.scribd.com... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191562 Tue, 14 May 2013 01:04:33 The Phoenician Paraiba Stone of Brazil proves that Columbus was not the first explorer over the Atlantic. Let's see, there was the Vikings, the Chinese, ancient India and now the Phoenicians. Come as see this stone fully translated for the first time and prove a visit from the ancient land of Cana... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191551 Sat, 11 May 2013 21:09:14 Come on a Vision Quest with the Ark of the Covenant from its native land in Israel to the land of the Micmac. See how Micmac petroglyphs portray the ark and the language of those who made it...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/137594615/In-Search-of-the-Ark-of-the-Covenant... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191546 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:58:54 A holistic Indigenous world-view on the mystery surrounding early Mesoamerican prophecy and how it can be interpreted in terms of the December 21, 2012 Galactic Alignment
http://www.academia.edu/2392707/December_21st_2012_-_End_of_the_World_and_Birth_of_Another... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191545 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:20:32 This book considers the fulfillment of the Ojibwa 7th Fire Prophecy:
"Look for an island shaped like a turtle that will be an instrument in the purification of the earth."
We all know this is North America. In some First Nations circles, South America, the World, local islands and mountains are a... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191540 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:42:42 This is very sad:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/12/paris-auction-sells-hopi-masks

The Hopi want the masks returned, insisting they have a special status and are more than art: they represent their dead ancestors' spirits. The Hopi, a tribe whose territory is surrounded by Arizona, n... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191536 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:25:44 WH Petition started 12 April to designate Wounded Knee massacre site a National Monument. Please sign if you are so inclined.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/designate-wounded-knee-massacre-site-national-monument/Wd1zhdKq

-- Mal... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191533 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:32:06 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/12/legendary-ballerina-maria-tallchief-dies-at-88/

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Producer-and-former-prima-ballerina-Maria-Tallchief.-File-photo-via-AFP..jpg

One of America’s finest ballerinas and the muse and wife of legendary choreog... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191529 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:05:47 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/12/french-court-allows-auction-of-sacred-hopi-masks/

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/sacredhopimask-afp.jpg

A French court on Friday rejected a request for an injunction against the auction in Paris of ceremonial masks originating from A... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191528 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:30:26 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_FRANCE_ARTIFACTS_AUCTION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-04-11-06-00-23

PARIS (AP) -- A French judge will decide Friday whether to let a Paris auction house sell dozens of items central to an Arizona tribe's religious practices.

A lawy... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191525 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:40:37 The Hopi Tablets belong to the Bear Clan and the Fire Clan of the Hopi First Nations of Arizona. They have remained with certain families in sacred bundles for hundreds of years until the Hopi new with the fulfillment of certain signs it was time to offer these tablets as a gift to the world. Are ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191518 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:44:08 http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/04/native-americans-portraits-from-a-century-ago/100489/

In the early 1900s, Seattle-based photographer Edward S. Curtis embarked on a project of epic scale, to travel the western United States and document the lives of Native Americans still untouched by W... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191512 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:21:14 What is the significance of the decipherment of the Easter Island tablets?
These Rongorongo writing boards preserve an early Polynesian Indigenous spirituality, ritual and world-view. Only those initiated into the island's wisdom schools or harekura (wharekura) were enabled to learn the ancient sc... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191510 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:10:45 Community empowerment is one approach that is community based in its theoretical underpinnings and has been used to develop substance abuse prevention for Native American youth (Petoskey et al., 1998; Rowe, 1997). Generally, this method utilizes multiple strategies to increase knowledge about drugs... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191509 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:20:58 Who wants to take the Rainbow Warrior pledge to restore the earth? Come and see...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/127701471/The-Pledge-of-the-Rainbow-Warrior... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191506 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:20:21 http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/404849_3794024628596_1260800596_n.jpg

[div class="excerpt"]The Petition

Under cover of the night on December 23, a band of 350 people left the Miniconjou village on the Cheyenne River to begin a treacherous 150-mile, week-long trek through the Badlan... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191500 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:46:01 Universal, selective, and indicated substance abuse prevention programs are all commonly found in American Indian communities. Distinctions between different types of prevention are often blurred; however, as commonly the entire community is considered at risk and is the focus of intervention. Unf... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191499 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:24:30 [b]CHAPTER 2: Review of Related Literature[/b]

The recognition that substance use among American Indian youth often begins at an early age has resulted in a growing emphasis on prevention rather than treatment efforts. Research detailing epidemiology, etiology, and domains of risk and protection... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191498 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:39:22 http://ourmothertongues.org/Home.aspx

[blockquote][div class="excerpt"]Listen to American Indians from twelve tribal communities speaking in their mother tongues by holding your mouse over the images. You can also click on an image or a tribal name on the right side of the page to learn more abou... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191495 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:27:40 http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/we-still-live-here/

http://video.pbs.org/video/2168433568Watch


https://www.facebook.com/events/483758115018425/

Food & Film: We Still Live Here
Plimoth Plantation
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We Still Live He... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191494 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:38:15 [b]Take a stand. Answer the call for equality. Answer the call for civil rights. 
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[blockquote][div class="excerpt"]
[b]This double portrait depicts a woman carrying a baby on her back. They are standing in front of a coastal scene in which several canoes are visible.[/b][/div][/blockquote]


http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/deb... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191484 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 06:57:27 whenever i talk to someone new, the ones who say they are part native, it is always cherokee. i have never heard any other tribe named. guess the cherokee were/are quite popular. i am ojibwe, by the way.... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191479 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 09:03:49 Native Americans on an oil-rich North Dakota reservation have been cheated out of more than $1 billion by schemes to buy drilling rights for lowball prices, a flurry of recent lawsuits assert. And, the suits claim, the federal government facilitated the alleged swindle by failing in its legal obliga... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191478 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:18:34 http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s480x480/602788_397291837019785_1557765778_n.png... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191472 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:08:49 http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s480x480/574697_3841390772418_298274454_n.jpg... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191464 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:02:26 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5XjPg7PCl_8


http://www.peta.org/features/cherokee-bear-investigation/home.aspx... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191462 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:12:19 MNN. Feb. 9, 2013. Hollywood has created a new “hero”, Abraham Lincoln, for their patriotism program. President Obama swore on the same Bible as President Lincoln at both his inaugurations. In his 2009 speech he declared that “the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve”. He vowed to finish Lincoln’s Ind... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191459 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 07:36:24 http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/792383_10151201504931887_1372134187_o.jpg

Dear Fellow DUers: I know that some who post in this forum ar/have been active in the AIM. I note that both Debra White Plume and Winona LaDuke can be followed on Facebook. If any of you "follow" them on FB, I th... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191452 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:35:29 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-hometown-pine-ridge-20130203,0,375984.story?page=1

[div class="excerpt"]On a narrow road two miles from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, State Line Liquor beckons.

Inside, "Native Pride" caps line a wall and sodas fill a cooler. But more ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191447 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:17:01 http://www.democraticunderground.com/121867325... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191446 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 06:32:05 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/01/petroglyphs-stolen-from-eastern-sierra-site-recovered-.html
http://www.inedc.com/sites/default/files/slider-image/RaymondAndrews.jpg
[b]In a Monday Nov. 12, 2012 photo Raymond Andrews, tribal historic preservation officer of the Bishop Paiute Tribe vis... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191441 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 06:04:44 boozhoo to all. ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191438 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:48:43 I am looking to write some articles for a Publication specifically geared for NA culture, ancestry and ceremony.

Also possibly seeking a grant to help me make the articvles happen.
Any Ideas or Orgs you can point me to would help.

(I will also be doing articles on my own search and reunion w... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191431 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:49:19 http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s480x480/399147_537632729588379_861449117_n.jpg... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191406 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:48:27 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_INDIAN_CHILD_WELFARE_DISPUTE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-01-20-09-57-36

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court could reshape longstanding federal law on the adoption of Native American children, depending on how the justices ru... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191404 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:27:57 Source: KEVN

http://youtu.be/AWnwawdKOIY... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191403 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:38:39 http://media-cache-ec6.pinterest.com/upload/151222499957821324_AujVdk8D_c.jpg... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191401 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:55:16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dc7fZonjD1M#!... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191400 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:03:31 http://www.iacb.doi.gov/order/source_map.html

[div class="excerpt"]Indian Arts and Crafts Board Mission


The Indian Arts and Crafts Board, an agency located in the U.S. Department of the Interior, was created by Congress to promote the economic development of American Indians and Alaska Nati... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191398 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:48:58