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 Culture-> Tribal Customs: View native interviews at MontanaTribes.org     
Posted on Friday, April 03 @ 14:17:42 CDT (652 reads)



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A new Web site about Montana’s Indian tribes that offers hours of video interviews with Native people, learning activities and other resources is now online.

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 Culture-> Tribal Customs: Many Indians say, 'no thanks' to Thanksgiving     
Posted on Thursday, November 22 @ 13:09:02 CST (4689 reads)



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AUTHOR: Anju Kaur

Desiree Shelley's family has observed Thanksgiving for generations, but that doesn't mean she doesn't understand the protests of fellow Indians who don't.

A native of Baltimore, Shelley has roots in the Monacan tribe of Virginia. Her father is part Monacan, a tribe that was "Christianized" shortly after the Jamestown colonization in the early 1600s, she said.

"Even if some American Indians celebrate (the holiday), there is a prevailing feeling of hurt for a lot of people," Shelley said. "We have all been assimilated and colonized. We have lost our history, our language and our culture. What do you expect?"


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 Culture-> Tribal Customs: The Mother Blessingway Ceremony     
Posted on Tuesday, September 18 @ 00:13:26 CDT (6819 reads)



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A Mother Blessing is one form of the Navajo Blessingway ceremony. It is a ritual for the expectant mother. A Mother Blessingway is a gathering of only women who get together, tell (positive) birth stories, give the expectant mother emotional support and pamper her a bit (brush her hair, wash her feet, massage her).

The tone, content, and intent of a blessingway can vary greatly, but generally, the modern event involves songs, food, and the giving of symbolic gifts and good wishes to the mother. In less spiritual practice, a blessing way is similar to a baby shower and is held for a pregnancy other than a woman’s first.

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 Culture->Games: ancient sla-hal bones identified, also known as the Bone Game or Stick Game     
Posted on Saturday, August 04 @ 03:32:45 CDT (4702 reads)



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Sla-Hal, Bone Game, or Stick Game are three ways to call a very popular game played amongst Northwestern Indian Tribes. Indian people of all ages have enjoyed gathering and participating in this exciting and traditional game for generations. Since time immemorial, some in the Pacific Northwest tribes say. And now there's physical proof.

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 TNB->Souix Nation: Indian people knew the universe and followed the stars     
Posted on Sunday, May 06 @ 19:03:23 CDT (5150 reads)



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AUTHOR: Tim Giago

The so-called oral histories of many of the Indian tribes are often based on actual events, even those deemed as myths. If one takes the time to study the prophecies and the medicine of the Hopi, Lakota and other Indian nations, I believe they would be startled to find that so many of these predictions and cures are true.

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 Crafts->Blankets/Rug: Weaving a story: Artist Jesse Henderson honors his Chippewa-Cree heritage     
Posted on Saturday, March 03 @ 19:11:13 CST (6378 reads)



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AUTHOR: Jody Rave Lee of the Missoulian

When the nation's premier woolen company asked artist Jesse Henderson to design a Pendleton blanket, he took it seriously.

“I was trying to be sensitive to my people,” said Henderson, a Chippewa-Cree from the Rocky Boy's Reservation in northern Montana. “It's not just another pretty blanket. I set out to show a good representation of us.”

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 Rez->PineRidge: Regalia Stolen, reward offered for their return     
Posted on Wednesday, December 27 @ 16:37:00 CST (7144 reads)



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Anonymous writes September 23rd, 2006, while visiting Palm Springs, California from Pine Ridge, South Dakota to take part in a powwow, a young girl, by the name of Delmarina One Feather was robbed of a piece of her heritage by an uncaring thief.

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 Culture->Games: Evolution of Native American Stickball into the modern game of LaCrosse     
Posted on Saturday, September 23 @ 14:31:40 CDT (10267 reads)



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This is a historical timeline of the evolution of the native american stickball game into the modern game of LaCrosse.

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 Culture-> Indian Symbols: Pueblo symbols and their meanings     
Posted on Monday, June 05 @ 02:19:47 CDT (21051 reads)



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Symbols are visual clues that indicate or represent something. For the Pueblo Indians, colors have come to represent directions symbolically. For instance, for the Hopi, yellow represents north, white represents east, red represents south, blue represents west, and black represents "above." For centuries, the Hopi have grown maize in each of these colors.

Other Pueblo symbols include the following:

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 Crafts->Silver Jewelry: Turquoise, the fallen Sky stone     
Posted on Tuesday, May 23 @ 14:21:32 CDT (9596 reads)



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Turquoise, the "fallen skystone", "gem of the centuries", is indigenous to the Americas, Egypt, ancient Persia (Iran), Tibet and China. Throughout human history, the stone has been revered and admired for its beauty and reputed spiritual life-enhancing qualities.

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 Crafts->Blankets/Rug: Indian Trade Blankets     
Posted on Tuesday, May 23 @ 13:56:18 CDT (6908 reads)



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Whether woven by a Native American or mass-produced by American woolen mills on a Jacquard loom, the blanket is a constant of Native American life and it is inextricably tied to the tradition of trade in the Southwest.

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 Culture->Wedding Customs: Cherokee Wedding Customs     
Posted on Friday, May 19 @ 03:17:07 CDT (16317 reads)



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As relatives and friends followed, the couple entered the sacred council fire area. The bride wore a white dress and white moccasins, usually made from deer or elk skins. The groom wore a roe-colored ribbon shirt, black pants and moccasins.

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 Culture->Wedding Customs: Sacred Fire Wedding Ceremony     
Posted on Friday, May 19 @ 03:12:58 CDT (10829 reads)



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The Sacred Fire Ceremony is symbolic of the separate lives of the couple and the union of One accomplished by this beautiful and exciting ceremony.

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 R&S->Prayers: Apache Wedding Prayer     
Posted on Friday, May 19 @ 02:21:05 CDT (7297 reads)



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Here is an Apache Wedding Prayer.

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 Culture->Wedding Customs: Kaw Wedding Customs     
Posted on Monday, January 02 @ 20:37:56 CST (7798 reads)



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Thomas Huffaker, the Kaw Mission teacher, wrote the following account of a Kaw marriage:

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