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Henry P. Hamilton, a Two Rivers businessman, amassed a significant collection of Native American copper and stone artifacts. Hamilton's collection, started in 1884, grew through purchases and ...
In 2023, the New York State Board of Regents voted to ban Native American mascots, logos, and imagery in public schools. The ban will take effect at the end of June.
The exhibit at the Newberry Library has everything from “Star Wars” clips to Polaroid pictures, showing through pop culture how Native stories are still being created. “We’r… ...
The Sky Axe was not lost or discarded; it was made from a type of stone not native to Orkney, and it seems to have been placed in Structure 14 as part of a ritual deposit marking the end of that ...
The broad term “Native American” is typically used to describe the Indigenous people who inhabited the land now known as the U.S. for thousands of years before European colonization. The ...
Some Native American groups (particularly those in leadership) were on board with the Biden administration’s agenda. Young Natives were encouraged to get to the polls “by Skateboard, Bike—Or Horseback ...
THIS work is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of American archaeology. Dr. Abbott describes successively the principal types of stone, bone, and bronze antiquities, especially those of New ...
Remember that a 1990 Federal law (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) protects Native American remains. Please be respectful of all indigenous sites in NWLA.
In 2024, Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, granting Native Americans voting rights. But the fight to exercise those rights is ongoing.
Archaeologist Debbie Saylor shows a stone made by Native Americans 2,000-4,000 years ago that was used as a counterbalance on an atlatl, a spear-throwing device. Bash Kensington, left, found it in ...
The professor, who has been at UC since 2007, documented some of its large collection of grave goods including shell beads, a bird bone flute, stone axes, bear teeth with drilled holes, a copper ...