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The Hopi people believe the end of this fourth world will happen with catastrophic events as the fifth world begins to emerge. Who will go into the new world?
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After the Blessed Virgin Mary and her assorted shrines and grottoes, evangelical Catholics in Canada and United States flock to and draw inspiration from the North American Martyrs’ Shrines in Midland, Ontario and Auriesville, New York; where collectively six clerics and two `donne’ or lay people were killed, supposedly `in odium fidei’ (in hatred of the faith).
The Thanksgiving myth is of Indians and Pilgrims getting together for a feast of brotherly love and appreciation. Most of us don't understand its bloody origins
The Kets are an indigenous people who live in Siberia and are regarded to be one of the smallest ethnic groups in that region. Their appearance, language and traditional semi-nomadic lifestyle has scientists bewildered by their origins, with some proposing links to the native tribes of North America.
Urge Congress to create a Smithsonian Native American Holocaust Museum It is estimated that before the “discovery” of the Americas there were approximately over 5 million Native Americans inhabitin…
A selection of copper engravings featured in Dutch explorer, missionary, and theologian Arnoldus Montanus' monumental De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, 1671.
Did a race of Human giants walk the earth before us? The American Indians think so. If they existed, who were they, what were they doing, and why is it a secret now? Forbidden History.
How many different uses are there for the Buffalo? While most people immediately think meat, there are in fact quite a number of products t...
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One of the most shocking, and upsetting, moments of your adult life was probably learning the full story of Christopher Columbus. Almost every elementary school textbook hails him as a hero who "discovered" America, whose tireless crew on the Niña,…
by Lu Paradise • 5 Comments • 4,627 views (old Paradise Post stats before DDOS attacks sunk our site & killed ALL its search links!) One of the greatest wars of all time can’t be found in the…
The history books will tell you that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the pilgrims in 1621. Not true. An interesting bit of trivia is that the first American Thanksgiving was actually celebrated on September 8, 1565 in St. Augustine, Florida. The Native Americans and Spanish settlers held a feast and the Holy Mass was […]
Malcolm X once stated “Aborigine. Which means what? Black Folks.” Then he later went on to say “You and I are Aborigine.” Malcolm X stated that the rock landed on us after h…
by Cupertino Schools REALTOR Michelle Carr CroweWho else remembers reciting 'In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.' In preparation for Columbus Day, stu
Researchers should always be ready for the next big discovery, they never know where it may come from. Having an open mind and questioning peculiar finds is what sets things in motion. Take for example the increasingly common perspective that the first people in the Americas came by boat. For one researcher, it all started with a bathroom break and an unlikely discovery on Cedros Island in Mexico.
Yaupon tea, a botanical cousin to yerba maté, is now almost unknown.
The mixed-race Melungeon people from Appalachia can be tough for descendants to trace. Learn some origin theories and tips for starting your research.
The illustrations here show how to communicate using Native American/'Indian' sign language, and come from two vintage sources: one in the '50s, and the other from the '20s.
Thanks to a discovery by a local landowner, archaeologists unearthed the first recorded Native American tools of their kind in the Willamette Valley this summer.
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The Ojibwe people migrated westward slowly from the northeastern part of North America around 1500 years ago. Eventually some bands made their homes in the northern area of present-day Minnesota.
Other than the fact that they existed, pretty much everything Hollywood and TV has taught you about Native Americans is purest fiction, drummed up by racist white people desperate to demonize the people that already lived on the lands that they wanted. Hopefully, we can set at least a few records straight with this article.
I have written several articles on each of these rolls from a genealogical viewpoint. In this article, I will address the two rolls and compare them side %
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense” – Gertrude Stein
Cahokia was bigger than Paris—then it was completely abandoned. I went there to find out why.
Indigenous Americans had (and have) rich traditions concerning their origins, but until the late 19th century, most outsiders’ knowledge about the Native American past was speculative at best. Among the more popular misconceptions were those holding that the first residents of the continent had been members of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel or refugees from the lost island of Atlantis, that their descendents had developed the so-called Mound Builder culture, and that Native Americans had later overrun and destroyed the Mound Builder civilization. These erroneous and overtly racist beliefs were often used to rationalize the destruction or displacement of
Iroquois Confederacy PART I. Because of the length of study on this topic, we have devoted two pages on our site to this topic. This page is about the Iroquois Confederacy. Click here for PART
1. The Cherokee Indians have a creation myth where a man slaps a woman with a fish and children appear.
Scholars have shed remarkable new light on the Italian explorer (pictured), who set sail on a voyage of discovery in 1492 to bring gold and spices to the King and Queen of Spain.
