Explore Native American Heritage: History
Why aren't there more Native American restaurants?
When you cuisine, do Indigenous foods come to mind? Chef Sean Sherman serves up an essential history lesson that explains the absence of Nativthink of North American e American culinary traditions across the continent, highlighting why revitalizing Indigenous education sits at the center of a better diet and healthier relationship with the planet.
- Native American IntersectionalityTwo heroic Native American individuals were selected to represent the past and present. Intersectionality promotes an understanding of human beings as shaped by the interaction of different social locations.
- Two-Spirit PeopleTwo Spirit spirits have been present in Native communities for countless generations. Native American two-spirit people were male, female, and sometimes intersexed individuals who combined activities of both men and women. In most tribes, they were considered neither men nor women; they occupied a distinct, alternative gender status.
- American Indian Code TalkersThe idea of using American Indians who were fluent in both their traditional tribal language and in English to send secret messages in battle was first put to the test in World War I with the Choctaw Telephone Squad and other Native communications experts and messengers. During World War II the US military developed a specific policy to recruit and train American Indian speakers to become code talkers.
- Native American Cultures: Facts, Regions and Tribes (Northeast)Short blurb from History.com with brief anthropological info about the original inhabitants of the Northeast Americas.
- The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all alongEditorial from High Country News, reflecting on the recent discovery of fossilized footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, which confirm that human beings have lived in the Americas for at least 23,000 years.
- In Mainstream Museums, Confronting Colonialism While Curating Native American ArtWeighted down by centuries of misrepresentation, cultural appropriation, and false narratives, institutions struggle to present Native art in a respectful, honest way.