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As April 8 draws near Perry Ground's new show plans to bring Native American eclipse stories to life. 'A very human event:' Rediscovering local heritage through Native American eclipse stories ...
Since the dawn of human history, oral stories have been used to understand the reasons behind human existence. [1] Today, Indigenous storytelling is part of the broader indigenous process of building and transmitting indigenous knowledge. [2] Storytelling offers an opportunity to continue traditions by passing down stories through oral and ...
Native American doctors Siobhan Wescott and Beth Mittelstet argue that greater funding should be directed towards educating and encouraging indigenous people to become physicians in order to help remedy issues with staffing, reduce discrimination in care, lower Native American poverty rates, and increase patient advocacy among physicians. [26]
Key to traditional Ojibwe life is the attempts to live well, or bimaadiziwin. [167] Hallowell described this as denoting "life in the fullest sense, life in the sense of longevity, health and freedom from misfortune". [168] To ensure this, a person must build respectful and reciprocal relationships with powerful manitouk. [40]
Native American women were at risk for rape whether they were enslaved or not; during the early colonial years, settlers were disproportionately male. They turned to Native women for sexual relationships. [38] Both Native American and African enslaved women suffered rape and sexual harassment by male slaveholders and other white men. [38]
Native American migration to urban areas continued to grow: 70% of Native Americans lived in urban areas in 2012, up from 45% in 1970, and 8% in 1940. Urban areas with significant Native American populations include Rapid City, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, Denver, Phoenix, Tucson, Seattle, Chicago, Houston, and New York City. Many have lived in ...
Phillips (right) at the 2017 Native Nations Rise March. By 1999, Phillips was working to create a foster care system run by American Indians for Native children to help them gain an appreciation for their heritage: "I don't want our children to think that prison is the only place for them to go." [8]
On August 3, 1990, President of the United States George H. W. Bush declared the month of November as National American Indian Heritage Month.The bill read in part that "The President has authorized and requested to call upon Federal, State and local Governments, groups and organizations and the people of the United States to observe such month with appropriate programs, ceremonies and ...