Cultural Awareness and Revitalization

Chief Crazy Horse: The Red Man has Great Heroes Also

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Resting high above the treetops of the Black Hills (Paha Sapa), sacred lands of his people, a monument of Crazy Horse (Tȟašúŋke Witkó), legendary Oglala Lakota warrior, acts as a sentinel and symbol o...

July 18, 2021

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Cultural Awareness and Revitalization

Reclaiming Sacred Places: No Longer Harney Peak

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Andrew Jackson, James Monroe, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, Jefferson Davis, Franklin Pierce, Phillip Sheridan, Abraham Lincoln, and James Polk were among the contemporaries of William S. Harney, ...

June 13, 2021

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Pueblo Native Americans: Their History, Culture, and Traditions

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There are currently 6.7 million Native Americans living in the United States. However... Living descendants of the Pueblo Native American tribe only make up 1.2 percent of that number. While Pueblo N...

April 19, 2021

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Cultural Awareness and Revitalization

Winter Count, then and now

Delwin Fiddler, Jr

In my ancestors' time, the Wanietu Iyawapi or Winter Count was how we recorded our history from "first snow winter to first snow winter." The Winter Count was the way we passed down our history from o...

February 21, 2021

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Cultural Awareness and Revitalization

Native American land and loss - Part 3

Native Hope with Trisha Burke

"The Dawes Act affects me every day," explains Peter Lengkeek, Tribal Chairman of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe (Hunkpati Oyate). Peter holds out his hand and continues, "Because of the Dawes Act, I own ...

February 8, 2021

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Cultural Awareness and Revitalization

Native American land and loss - Part 2

Native Hope with Trisha Burke

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." In the first installment of this series, I mention this notion regarding Native American Land and Loss. The age-old phrase still applies as we look at aspe...

January 3, 2021

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Cultural Awareness and Revitalization

Native American land and loss

Native Hope with Trisha Burke

According to Google Maps, the United States of America is 3.797 million square miles (mi²). New England measures in around 46,000 mi² (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and ...

December 14, 2020

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Cultural Awareness and Revitalization

Chief Standing Bear's legacy, civil rights leader of his time - Part 3

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“That hand is not the color of yours, but if I prick it, the blood will flow, and I shall feel pain. The blood is of the same color as yours. God made me, and I am a man." -Chief Standing Bear, Ponca ...

October 4, 2020

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Cultural Awareness and Revitalization

Chief Standing Bear's legacy, civil rights leader of his time - Part 2

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"At last, I see a rift in the rocks. A little way beyond, there are green prairies. The swift-running water, the Niobrara, pours down between the green hills. There are the graves of my fathers…" - Ch...

September 29, 2020

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Chief Crazy Horse: The Red Man has Great Heroes Also

Reclaiming Sacred Places: No Longer Harney Peak

Pueblo Native Americans: Their History, Culture, and Traditions

Winter Count, then and now

Native American land and loss - Part 3

Native American land and loss - Part 2

Native American land and loss

Chief Standing Bear's legacy, civil rights leader of his time - Part 3

Chief Standing Bear's legacy, civil rights leader of his time - Part 2

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