#native-american-culture

#native-american-culture

As bright-colored kayaks push through a thick wall of fog, voices and the beats of drums build as kayakers approach a crowd that has formed on the beach.

The legislation that made the eagle official came from members of Minnesota's Congressional delegation. The federal act recognizes the eagles' centrality in most Indigenous peoples' spiritual lives and sacred belief systems.

Federal education officials have launched a civil rights inquiry to determine whether New York State can refuse funding to a Long Island school district for retaining a Native American mascot.

Chinook salmon are commercially important and a traditional food of Native American tribes. However, habitat loss from dams has resulted in distinct populations becoming endangered.

As I stood atop a rocky precipice in central Montana, the most striking thing before me was nothing. More precisely, it was space: the all-encompassing nothingness for which the West is famous.

Coyote, the most famous trickster figure of Native American lore, appears in the stories of many different nations, usually as the main character, encouraging transformation.

Kitsch shared, "I got to spend time down in Wind River with some of the elders there and learn to speak Shoshoni, and educate myself..."

Heidi Loewen emphasized the importance of breath while learning pottery, likening it to a sport where excitement often leads to forgetting to breathe, crucial for focus.