Native american village

The site of a 16th century Native American village on the Coosa River at Fosters Bend is so much more than a place where artifact hunters discovered a Spanish sword in 1982.

Shawnee homes of the past- The Shawnee didn't live in tepees. They lived in small round dwellings called wikkums, or wigwams. Each Shawnee village also included a larger council house built from wood. Today, the Shawnee only build a wigwam for fun or to connect with their heritage, not for shelter. Now most Shawnees live in modern houses and apartment buildings.

Eastern North Carolina has been the citadel of the state’s colonial history and European cultural heritage ever since Sir Walter Raleigh’s dream of colonization at Roanoke came to so mysterious an end. Legends tell of pirate treasure buried beneath the dunes of the Outer Banks, and rusting smokestacks, masts, and boilers protrude from offshore waters, testimony to the more than 2,000 ships that have gone down. Nearby Nags Head got its name, according to tradition, because unscrupulous…

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The thoughts and perspectives of indigenous individuals, especially those who lived during the 15th through 19th centuries, have survived in written form less often than is optimal for the historian. Because such documents are extremely rare, those interested in the Native American past also draw information from traditional arts, folk literature, folklore, archaeology, and other sources. Native American history is made additionally complex by the diverse geographic and cultural backgrounds…

“The focus is on funding the campgrounds for the jobs they will create,” said Lea Whitford of the Blackfeet Planning Department about a $65,000 grant her department landed. The Indian Country Economic Development Grant, issued by the Montana Department of Commerce, is aimed at infrastructure improvements at the three Tribal campgrounds nearest Glacier National Park.

Description of apache houses such as the Kowa or Hogan used by apache indians at various times. 2300+ articles about american indians.

Indian Life painting by Charles M. Russell at Wichita Art Museum. Wichita, KS.

First Nations archaeologists in New Brunswick, Canada, are unearthing hundreds of artifacts and exposing a campsite where their distant ancestors lived about 12,000 years ago. It is one of the earliest sites in eastern North America, occupied not long after the glaciers started to recede northward.