Native American Heritage Month
National Native American Heritage Month is drawing to a close. Since 1990, the US has celebrated National Native American Heritage Month in November to commemorate indigenous peoples’ s ...
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Native American Heritage Month: The Totem Tradition
Of all the material culture produced by First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest, the totem is likely the most easily recognizable. Totems are monuments created to represent and commem ...
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Native American Heritage Month: Linda Haukaas
In Plains cultures, art forms associated with women (such as quilling and beadwork) and those associated with men (including ledger art) were, like gender roles, complementary. The art forms of both m ...
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Native American Heritage: The Anasazi
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, let’s take a look at one of the many cultures that occupied regions of the United States before European settlement: the Anasazi. Scholars now b ...
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Native American Heritage Month: Zia Pueblo
Today I present a work that reflects the abundance of rich indigenous cultures that populated the U.S. long before European settlement. The Anasazi of the western and southwestern U.S. were an amazing ...
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Native American Heritage Month: The Powhatan Confederacy
Indigenous peoples lived in every region of present-day United States when the first Europeans arrived in the 1500s. The Spanish came via Mexico during expeditions in 1539 to 1543, 1540 to 1542, and 1 ...
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Native American Heritage Month: Ledger Art
Little is known of the Arapaho artists who created the drawings in the Henderson Ledger, referred to as Henderson Ledger Artists. The ledger was owned by Frank Henderson, and many of the drawings ...
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Native American Heritage Month: Marcus Amerman
The Choctaw band is descended from the Mississippian culture (Mound Builders), which had villages throughout the region of the Mississippi River across the Deep South. They are thought to have be ...
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Native American Heritage Month: Casas Grandes
Archeologists now believe that the earliest human settlements in the Americas occurred somewhere between 28,000 and 17,000 BCE, after migration across the Bering Strait land bridge, which disappeared ...
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Native American Heritage Month: Fritz Scholder
Artist Fritz Scholder was in the forefront of First Nations modernism starting in the mid- to late 1900s. The groundwork for the recognition of modern Native American art was laid by the Institute of ...
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