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Cherokee Center Puts Documentation Services Online

The Cherokee Heritage Documentation Center now provides a quick and simple way for people of Cherokee blood to register online, document their heritage, and learn more about who they are.

Do indian reservations need summer volunteers?

QUESTION: Do indian reservations need summer volunteers? I am a 17 year old junior in high school and would like to do some volunteer work this summer with another culture.
�~Submitted by Cindy T.

I'm related to Pocahontas. Can I enroll in her tribe?

QUESTION:
We have recently traced my husband's roots to Pocahontas. His Grandmother had always told him there was a relation, but he never had any proof. He is now interested in joining a tribe. Is this something that is completed in the state we reside? We have found that there is a Accohannock Tribe in Maryland, but we reside in North Carolina. Thanks in advance for your assistance.
�� ~Submitted by Connie C.

Were the Arickaree tribe from the Kansas City, Kansas area?

QUESTION:

Were the Arickaree Indians ever in Kansas City, Kansas in Wyandotte County? We live in a housing addition called Arickaree Addition on the papers from when we purchased the house. A woman said the Arickarees were never in Kansas.
��~Submitted by Frances W.

Three Affiliated Tribes Time Line

Timeline of important events to the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold (the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara).

You might be an Indian Jedi if...

Indian thoughts on chickens crossing the road

Why did the chicken cross the road? Here's the Indian perspective.

Chaco and Mesa Verde: Southwest parks with similar history but different visitor experiences

AUTHOR: Carey Quan Gelernter and Jerry Large

Mesa Verde National Park, in Colorado's southwest corner, offers visitors a look at the life of the Ancestral Pueblo people. The park is home to 600 cliff dwellings, where Ancestral Puebloans lived for more than 700 years.

Chaco's main draw is Pueblo Bonito, one of the most extensively excavated and studied sites in North America. Center of the Chacoan world and occupied from the mid-800s to 1200s, it was a four-story masonry "great house" with more than 600 rooms and 40 kivas.

Siberian language may be related to Nadene languages

AUTHOR: George Bryson

A panel of respected linguists who met in Anchorage on Friday are hailing new research that links the Old World language of Ket, still spoken sparingly along the Yenisei River in western Siberia, and the sprawling New World family of Na-Dene languages -- a broad grouping that encompasses the many Athabascan tribes in Alaska, along with the Tlingit and Eyak people, as well as Indian populations in western Canada and the American Southwest, including the Navajo and the Apache.

Poop fossil proves human habitation in North America 14,340 years ago

AUTHOR: Randolph E. Schmid

New evidence shows humans lived in North America more than 14,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than had previously been known.