‘Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi’
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- Educators learning more about teaching American Indians
‘Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi’
Wall Street Journal
And this drama was at the heart of a place we now call Cahokia ancient America’s one true city north of Mexico—as large in its day as London— and the political capital of a most unusual Indian nation. At that time all the stars and planets in the Northern Hemisphere’s night sky were visible above Cahokia situated in a broad expanse of Mississippi River bottomland just east of what is now St. Cahokia’s people looked to the Morning and Evening stars for guidance and— inspired by ideas from Mesoamerica possibly brought back from Cahokian rulers’ travels or priests’ vision quests— incorporated them into a religion that would displace traditions across the American Midwest South and Plains.
William Yeatman and Jeremy Lott: Greens threaten American Indian …
Washington Examiner
This would be welcome relief — the reservation is plagued by unemployment of almost 50 percent. A coal power plant may be an economic boon for the Navajos but it’s an eco-sin to green groups. They boast of having stopped the construction of 100 coal plants as if imposing expensive energy on American consumers is a good thing. Now they have unleashed a phalanx of lawyers to stop the Navajo Nation from helping itself. Despite the Navajo Nation’s efforts to ensure that the Desert Rock Plant would be up to 10 times cleaner than other regional plants for key particulate pollutants the Environmental Protection Agency only grudgingly granted an air quality permit last summer after a six-year delay. Then in an unprecedented decision this April the EPA rescinded the permit at the behest of lawyers for environmentalist advocacy groups like EarthJustice. EPA officials claim they need more time evaluate the environmental effect of the plant but they’ve been on the case for years.
John Poupart: Work on strengthening American Indian communities …
Twin Cities Planet
) By Jaclyn Evert TC Daily Planet ?ur oral history defines who we are. ur language comes from the Creator as a gift to us as a people and we are the original people of the Western Hemisphere. We have an oral history maintained by the language? says John Poupart of West Saint Paul president of the American Indian Policy Center and facilitator for the Dakota-jibwe Language Revitalization Alliance (DLRA) one of the few statewide indigenous language revival efforts in the United States. He has worked there since 1994. n Thursday August 27 at a special ceremony in Minneapolis John Poupart will receive the.
Educators learning more about teaching American Indians
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Speakers discussed the importance of incorporating the history and teachings of American Indians in the classroom. Dance and drum presentations were also narrated to help explain why they are important to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. The College of Education plans on making the American Indian Culture Day an annual event.
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