From Washington Coast to Alaska, the Pacific Coast of the US is inhabited by the Northwest Indians from the Nootka, Coast Salish, Bella-Coola, Haida, Tlingit, Kwakiutl and Tsimshian tribes. These tribes are also known under the name of the people of the totem pole after the largest of the famous wood carvings made by these [...]
Read More...The Indian Removal Act (an Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi) is part of the United States government policy known as the Indian Removal, which was signed into law by the President Andrew [...]
Read More...The Indian Kokopelli is the Southwest Native Americans’ humpback flute player, a very popular figure found at Pertroglyph sites throughout the southwest regions of the United States. The etymology of the word kokopelli comes from the Zuni and Hopi names for a god (koko) and a desert robber fly the Indians called pelli. Given the [...]
Read More...The popular Indian fry bread recipe tells the story of pain and freedom loss that is part of Navajo history. Though the Indian fry bread recipe can be found with several Amerindian tribes in the south west of the United States, the Navajos are the ones to have invented it. The story behind the fry [...]
Read More...The Aztec Indians, known also under the name of Mexicas were the Native American people located in northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest led by Hernan Cortes in the early 16th century. As their own legends suggest, this people had its origins in a place called Aztlan, somewhere in north or northwest [...]
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