Cremation Site Provides New Information About American Indian Burials
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- Cremation Site Provides New Information About American Indian Burials
- American Indian history at Virginia site commemorated
- Tim Giago: Native colleges – ne of America’s best kept secrets
- American Indian cremation pit found on Ga. island
- Salazar tapped as interior secretary
Cremation Site Provides New Information About American Indian Burials
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American Indian history at Virginia site commemorated
News from Indian Country WI
Hill Virginia (AP) 12-08A new interpretive sign at Mill Creek will inform visitors of the American Indians who once lived there and the plant and wildlife species that cohabited with them. The three-county area of Essex Caroline and King and Queen was part of the Rappahannock tribe’s territory. Chief Anne Richardson said her tribe’s ancestors also lived with the Nandtaughtacund and other tribes after being moved by the English to a town in the area of the U.
Tim Giago: Native colleges – ne of America’s best kept secrets
Native Times
He also has high hopes of financial input from the successful Indian casinos. He said the wealthy gaming tribes are an untapped source of revenues for the colleges that could open doors for Indian people everywhere. It has been the dream of Bordeaux and Dr. Jim Wilson an glala Lakota to build an American Indian University in the heart of the Black Hills. They believe the university would strengthen the Indian colleges rather than weaken them. “All of the Indian colleges would be beneficiaries and contributors to the American Indian University” Sen. Inouye said and as Chairman of the Appropriations Committee he thinks he can find the funds to make it a reality.
American Indian cremation pit found on Ga. island
The Associated Press
(AP) — Exposed by erosion at the edge of a crumbling bluff the pit discovered beneath 2 feet of sandy dirt at first appeared to be a grave just long and deep enough to bury a human body. Excavation by archaeologists on ssabaw Island revealed something more puzzling — just a few small bones apparently from fingers or toes mixed with charcoal bits of burned logs and pottery shards predating the arrival of the first European explorers by at least a century. The find has led researchers to suspect American Indians used the ancient pit to burn bodies of the dead making it a rare example of cremation among the early native inhabitants of the southeastern U. “It’s a special sort of burial” said Tom Gresham an Athens archaeologist who worked on the excavation and serves on Georgia’s Council on American Indian Concerns. “The way Indian tribes over time buried their dead varied tremendously. But cremations are fairly rare.
Salazar tapped as interior secretary
Indian Country Today NY
”“I look forward to helping address the challenges faced by our Native American communities all across this nation” Salazar said after bama made his announcement. If Salazar is confirmed by the Senate he will oversee a department that encompasses the BIA. The BIA handles a substantial amount of federal relations with Indian tribes as does the department’s ffice of the Special Trustee for American Indians. As part of the position Salazar will become the government’s de facto defendant in the long-running Cobell v. Kempthorne (previously known as Cobell v. Norton and Cobell v. Babbit) class-action lawsuit brought by American Indian representatives against the U.
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