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"All of us need to examine our own perceptions of Native Americans--how much they are shaped by stereotypes, distorted media portrayals or ignorance. We fear that prejudice and insensitivity toward Native peoples is deeply rooted in our culture and in our local churches."
US Bishops: A Time for Remembering
Statement of the U.S. Catholic Bishops on American Indians May 4, 1977. A summary and paraphrase by Gerald Darring Native Americans in the United States Indians in US in general. Culture. Economy. Telecommunications. The Plains. Eastern Woodlands. Maritime. Religious Orders, The Indian, And The Conquest: Fifty Years of Dispute and Contradiction Article by Maria Paz Haro, in Encounters, Issue 9. Listening to Native Americans: Making Peace with the Past for the Future By John Barry Ryan, Professor of Religious Studies and a member of the Peace Studies faculty at Manhattan College. Religious Freedom and Native Americans Article by John Dart in Theology Today, 1981 American Indian Religious Freedom Act Enacted by 95th Congress, August 11, 1978. American Indian Religious Freedom Act: Amendments of 1994 Relinquishing a Legacy of Hatred, Embracing Respect For All Life Conversations with Dino Butler. Interview conducted by E. K. Caldwell. Five Hundred Years of Injustice: The Legacy of Fifteenth Century Religious Practices By Steven T. Newcomb, Director of the Indigenous Law Insitute New Studies by Native American Scholar Document the Role of Christianity in Historic Oppression By Fred Whitehead President Clinton's Executive Order on Indian Sacred Sites Wallace Black Elk Speaks An Interview with a Lakota Elder which appeared in the May 1994 issue of M.E.N. Magazine. Native American Spirituality From the Religious Tolerance website Native Religions in Newfoundland and Labrador American Indian Culture Research Center The principal purpose of the Center, located at Blue Cloud Abbey, is to inform the general public of the world view, the philosophy of life, the spiritual insight of Native Peoples. First Nations Spirituality Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality Statement adopted by various Lakota/Dakota/Nakota organizations concerning the misappropriate of Lakota Traditional Practices. "Why I Am a Pagan." By Zitkala-Sa. Atlantic Monthly, 1902. The Soul of the Indian Complete text of the 1911 book by Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa). Columbus: A Moral Retrospective Article from Issues in Ethics, a publication of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. First Nations Histories Short histories of some 40 tribes. The Covert War Against Native Americans By Ward Churchill. Amerindian Mound Culture and American Amnesia A research paper by James Hutchison. Spanish Conquest of Native America Spanish Conquistadores traveled from Florida to Chicago to Texas in the 1540's. They were the first Europeans to record inland America. Conquest Records describe Indians living at places which are cities today. This site presents those records and describes Native America. DeSoto's Midwestern Conquest Trails Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi Colonialism in Greenland: An Inuit Perspective Accounts of the "Cherokee Trail of Tears" By Elizabeth Mulligan. "This is an interview of some of my cousins by a reporter for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, at a dedication ceremony of a monument to one of those lost on the Trail Of Tears." Wounded Knee Home Page American Indian Movement An excellent site with primary source material. Quips, Cranks, Nods And Becks Lots of good material. Social Equity & Environmental Justice The challenges facing the native peoples of Alaska, Canada, and Russia. A Natural Way of Life A statement from Bobby C. Billie, a spiritual leader of traditional independent indigenous people in Florida. Transcribed exactly as spoken on August 30, 1994. Our Way of Life Comes from the Land By Mary Georgette Mistenapeo of the Innu in Labrador, Canada. "The Only Good Indian is a Dead Indian" History and Meaning of a Proverbial Stereotype by Wolfgang Mieder in De Proverbio, An Electronic Journal of International Proverb Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia. Native Americans Bear the Nuclear Burden By Andreas Knudsen. Reprinted from Indigenous Affairs, January/February/March 1996. The History of the Maidu Mechoopda Indians Read how this California tribe went from riches to rags. The Sacred Use of Tobacco Alliance for Native American Indian Rights Dedicated to preserving and protecting Native American burial grounds and other culturally significant sites. "I" is NOT for Indians : The Portrayal of Native Americans in Books for Young People If you read nothing else, don't miss the opening and closing sections. The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian Indian Women Testimony from foreign travellers between 1820 and 1842 about the conditions of Native American women. This Week in American Indian History This web site lists events which happened to or affected Native Americans when such events could be traced to an exact date. Because almost none of the Original People had written languages or precise calendars, many dates are related to their interactions with Europeans. Articles on Indians in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia The Sky is Closed for California: Reading Jesuit Sources for the “Other”: Accommodation, Resistance and the Decline of Native Peoples in Eighteenth Century Baja Article by Alison Field in Ex Post Facto Dakota SpiritualityPope John Paul II. Statement of U.S. Catholic Bishops on Native Americans. Creator provides for all creatures. The White Buffalo Calf Virgin and the Pipe. Crying for a Vision. The Inipi Lodge Making of Relatives ~ Hunka Ceremony. Sundance. Throwing the Ball. Keeping of the Soul Becoming a Woman. The Four Values: Generosity ~ Courage ~ Respect ~ Wisdom. The Sacred Tree. Animals. The Eagle. Morning Star. The Sun. The Sacred Circle. Sacred Hills ~ Mother Earth. Glossary ~ Few Important Dakota Words. Sacramental Theology. Chief Seattle's Speech Articles on Spiritual HeritageCannupa, The Sacred Pipe, The Basis of Dakota Spirtuality. A Cross Cultural Approach to Catechesis Among Native American. History of the Star Quilt. Name Ceremonies. Wedding Prayer. Explanation of Star Quilt. God's Eye, The Sun. White Buffalo Calf. Expressed Native American Concerns. Bibliography - Religion of the American Indian. Prayer with the Sacred Pipe. Comments on the Pipe Ceremony. Shining Through. Eagle Feather. The Four Directions. Dakota Theology. The Life of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha. Saint-to-be Tekakwitha. Litany of Kateri Tekakwitha. A New Beginning. St. Joseph, a True Dakota. Dakota / Lakota Theology Indigenous Americans: Spirituality and Ecos Article by Jack D. Forbes in Daedalus Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral: The Sacred Connection By Carol Lee Sanchez. Reprinted from: Carol J Adams. Ecofeminism and the Sacred (Continuum, 1999), pp. 207 - 228 Religion From the Encyclopedia of North American Indians Selling American Indian Spirituality: "Cheating Us, Cheating Them" Guest Commentary By Pte Cante Winyan (Buffalo Heart Women), South Dakota Spiritual Commodification and Misappropriation: What Native People Want You To Understand Compiled by Mariah Jones A Brief History of the Native American Church by Jay Fikes. From One Nation Under God, 1996, by Huston Smith Joseph Chihoatenhwa: The Forgotten Martyr Brebeuf's Instructions to the Missionaries In 1637, Father Jean de Brebeuf drew up a list of instructions for Jesuit missionaries destined to work among the Huron. These reflect his own experience and a genuine sensitivity toward our people 1663-1702: The Missions - The Brandy Question Chapter 21 of The Old Regime in Canada by Francis Parkman Cherokee Nation based in Tahlequah, Oklahoma Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band, North Carolina Southern Cherokee Nation Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma Chicora Indian Tribe of South Carolina Choctaw Nation Of Oklahoma Crees of Northern Quebec Hawai`i Illini Confederation Innu Nation Inupiat of Arctic Alaska Lakota Wowapi Oti Kin The Lakota, Dakota and Nakota peoples are sometimes referred to as Sioux. Oneida Indian Nation Seminole Tribe of Florida Wiyot Tribe Wyandot Nation of Kansas Index of Native American Resources on the internet NativeWeb Native American Research Page Native American Resources Links to Aboriginal Resource |
