NATIVE AMERICAN WISDOM
collected by Dee Finney Please allow time for all the graphics to load. John Adams - Siletz - (1847-1928) John Adams American Horse was a Sioux chief during the Lakota Wars of the 1860s and 1870s. American Horse (Joseph Brown Thunder ) (??? American Horse "When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Chief Aupumut, Mohican. 1725 - The white man is in the Black Hills like maggots, and I want you to get them out as quick as you can. Baptiste Good Big Bear (??? Big Bear - Cree The Story Of Chief Big Bear Wamditanka (Big Eagle) of the Santee Sioux Big Foot - Lakota-Miniconjou-Cheyenne (??? Big Foot The Great Spirit is in all things: he is in the air we breathe. Ancient Prayer Choncape
Native American Home Pages - Nations
Tribal Connections in the Pacific Northwest - connecting American Indian/Alaska Native Communities to Health Resources on the Internet. Added 10/7/99ALGONQUIAN If you are looking for information on the "Algonquian Indians", you can stop right now. "Algonquian" is not the name of a Native tribe or nation; it is a language family, like "romance" or "indo-european". There are no "Algonquian Indians"; but there are Algonquin Indians in Canada. There are dozens of North American Nations that speak Algonquian languages all across the United States and Canada, but the languages and their speakers are as different from each other as French and Spanish and Italian are.
Native American Art (First Nations, Inuit, and American Indian artists)
American Indian Languages American Indian Tribes What's new on our site today! We get a lot of mail asking us to recommend websites where people can buy authentic American Indian arts and crafts. Sponsored Links There are many imitations of Native American artwork out there, and it can be hard to tell the wheat from the chaff. So if you're looking for arts and crafts that were actually made by Native Americans, either because it's important to you to have the real thing or because you want to support native people with your purchase, here is our directory of American Indian artists whose work is available online. Thank you for your interest in Native American Indian art! Native American Art Forms If you're interested in a particular American Indian art form, please visit one of these picture galleries for background information, history, photographs, and links to Native American artists selling each of these arts and crafts online: Native American Jewelry Dreamcatchers Native American Rugs
Coyote and the Columbia: From Native American Myths at Americanfolklore
From the Sahaptin/Salishan Tribes retold by S. E. One day, Coyote was walking along. "I would like a cloud," Coyote said. So a cloud came and made some shade for Coyote. "I would like more clouds," he said. "How about some rain," said Coyote. "More rain," Coyote demanded. "I would like a creek to put my feet in," said Coyote. "It should be deeper," said Coyote. The creek became a huge, swirling river. "I'm not dead," Coyote told them, and they flew away. That is how the Columbia River began.
Chief SpiritShadow
I am Chief Spirit Shadow of the The Three Spirit Clan of Free Cherokee. I have not always been known by that name. I was born and raised in the hills of southeast Ohio in the land of the beautiful river. My ancestors crossed that river into this part of the state of Ohio. Like many migrating Cherokee, they took on white names that represented the four directions or some other common term - last names like North, South and Newman. Like the Cherokee of the 19th century, these people assimilated into society as it existed in the early settlement days. Even as a child I knew there was something different about me. I was raised in white society and in a Christian religion. We eventually became part of a Native American clan nearby and for years participated in ceremony. Our clan is like an extended family. I have a high school education and a degree in Accounting, but much of what I learn comes from experience and inter-acting with others. We have welcomed many into our clan.
Native American Language Net: Preserving and promoting indigenous American Indian languages
Stonee's Buffalo Part II
Buffalo, the Life and Spirit of the American Indian's The buffalo meant a lot of different things to most of America's Native People's. They were food and clothing, tools and utinsels, and most of all a Spirit Being blessing the peoples with everything they needed to survive. Here on this page I will try to give you understanding on just how important the buffalo were to our Native Americans, first with my dilog and then with links to other pages on buffalo inculding place's to buy meat, robes, and other things of the buffalo. Understandably, then a major part of Indian life was oriented in and around the buffalo herds. There are several matters of magnitude to be considered about the Indians and the buffalo: First, there is the matter of the buffalo's place in the sphere of Indian religion. Third, as one ponders the uses made of the bison, he inevitably wants to know how the Indians themselves were able to make so much of it. A early writer named J.A.Allen supported Catlin's view.
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