Native American Culture

When European settlers - and later American settlers - came into contact with Native American tribes on the continent, they were frequently unable to differentiate between the subcultures within individual tribes. This led to all kinds of misunderstandings. When the Spanish came into contact with different tribes in the Southwest, they categorized several of them as Pueblo. Thus, while most Americans have heard of the Pueblo and Navajo, many remain unfamiliar with distinctions within the tribes.

Climate change is today's news, but it isn't a new phenomenon. Centuries-long cycles of heating and cooling are well documented for Europe and the North Atlantic. These variations in climate, including the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), AD 900 to 1300, and the early centuries of the Little Ice Age (LIA), AD 1300 to 1600, had a substantial impact on the cultural history of Europe.

Learning Native Wisdom explains why achieving a sustainable culture is more important than any other challenge we face today. Although there are many measures of a society's progress, Holthaus warns that only a shift away from our current culture of short-term abundance, founded on a belief in infinite economic growth, will represent true advancement. In societies that value the longevity of people, culture, and the environment, subsistence and spirituality soon become closely allied with sustainability.

Get over 200 fun, informative, and unique trivia questions about Native Americans! Are you a trivia buff? Do you love to learn new things? Have you always wanted to know more about Native American culture? If so, then this is the audiobook for you! You can match your skills against challenging trivia questions about topics like Native American leaders, major battles, artwork, religions, and languages. See how you measure up to the experts across 10 chapters packed to the brim with amazing lore, incredible facts, and fantastic puzzles.

Physician, activist, and author Charles Alexander Eastman was the first Native American certified in Western medicine and one of the first authors of any background to emphasize the Native American perspective. In The Soul of the Indian, he shares the customs, rituals, celebrations, and beliefs of Native American spirituality, and in so doing provides a powerful account of the “Great Mystery” at their core.

Two years ago, Guy Thornton was enjoying life on his ranch in southern Arizona with his growing family. Now, still reeling from the effects of a domestic tragedy, he’s hit rock bottom in the northern Arizona town of Flagstaff. His Kaibab Paiute friend has had enough of Guy’s drunken sorrow and violent outbursts, and jokingly suggests Guy “find a cliff” on the Kiabab Reservation. Unfortunately, Guy takes the suggestion to heart. He sets off dressed as a beggar, hoping to get a free ride from a Mormon who mistakes him for a Nephite, described in the Book of Mormon as a member of The ...

Navajo Monster Slayer myths are threaded through the story of the runaway Rose, now sixteen, and Jack Rawlings’ cattle ranching family who live near Winslow in northern Arizona. Jack’s cancer diagnosis sends him reeling, and feeling ranching life in the west is ending with his own, he undertakes a vigilante mission only to disappear on the Navajo reservation after falling into an abandoned kiva. His shy, bookish daughter, Kate, authors her own version of events, focusing on her courtship and marriage to the school teacher, Richard, and culminating in the birth of their child, Grace ...

Lyn has her pottery artwork, her precocious kid, Willow, and the uncertain terrain of her midlife to keep her mind, heart and hands busy. June, a Métis Studies professor, yearns to uproot from Vancouver and move. With her loving partner, Sigh, and their faithful pup, June decides to buy a house in the last place on earth she imagined she’d end up: back home in Winnipeg with her family.

For thousands of years two distinct cultures evolved unaware of one another’s existence. Separated by what one culture called The Great Sea and known to the other as the Atlantic Ocean, the course of each culture’s future changed irreversibly 400 years ago.

In the 15th century, four Mahu sail from Tahiti to Hawaii and share their gifts of science and healing with the people of Waikiki. The islanders return this gift with a monument of four boulders in their honor, which the Mahu imbue with healing powers before disappearing. As time passes, foreigners inhabit the island and the once-sacred stones are forgotten until the 1960s. Though the true story of these stones was not fully recovered, the power of the Mahu still calls out to those who pass by them at Waikiki Beach today.

The Olmec people are widely recognized as the first major civilization of Mexico and are thus generally regarded as the mother civilization of Mesoamerica, making them the people from which all subsequent Mesoamerican cultures derived. By and large, the Olmec culture is perhaps best identifiable by their so-called colossal heads, mammoth basalt head-statues wearing helmet-like headdresses found throughout Olmec habitation sites.

People of the Sun follows Guy Thornton’s adventure-packed horseback journey across Arizona’s Mogollon Rim to his claim his young son, Trick, who he’s never met, at a school near Prescott. The life and stories of Trick’s Yavapai mother interweave with the present-time narrative of Trick’s rebellion, and recounts how Star, a Sedona-based life coach and healer, helps Guy reconcile with a suddenly altered future. Book Five of The Arizona Series – novels intertwining Native American mythologies with western/adventure/romances set in the modern American West.

Award-winning author Duncan Tonatiuh reimagines one of Mexico's cherished legends. Princess Izta had many wealthy suitors but dismissed them all. When a mere warrior, Popoca, promised to be true to her and stay always by her side, Izta fell in love. The emperor promised Popoca if he could defeat their enemy Jaguar Claw, then Popoca and Izta could wed.

Quince mil años antes de que los Europeos pisarán las Américas, la gente ya se había propagado de punta a punta y de costa a costa. Como todos los humanos, estos Nativos Americanos buscaban comprender su lugar en el universo, la naturaleza de su relación con lo divino, y el origen del mundo en el que habían emergido sus antepasados.Las respuestas se encuentran en sus historias sagradas.

The Toltec are one of the most famous Mesoamerican groups in South America, but they are also the most controversial and mysterious. The Toltec have been identified as the group that established a strong state centered in Tula (in present-day Mexico), and the Aztec claimed the Toltec as their cultural predecessors, so much so that the word Toltec comes from the Aztec's word Tōltēcatl, translated as artisan.

The ancient desert O’odham people’s creation stories parallel the path a young Guy Thornton takes to emerge from the “maze” he has made of his life. The novel opens in the center of the narrative as Guy, a down-on-his-luck Arabian horse trainer fresh out of prison, is getting drunk at the Wander On Inn. He spends the next several months living in the central Arizona desert with an elderly O’odham woman who seeks to teach him “tribe spirit,” while alternating chapters recount the past and his big break when the wealthy Frank Fielding hires him to tend to his champion Arabian ...

Most of Guy Thornton’s family is thriving on their ranch in southern Arizona, but Samson the mule has grown old and his caretaker, Jasmine, has been struggling with depression since her mother’s recent death. Star insists Guy take them to a Mojave Ghost Doctor living on the Colorado River near Parker where Guy’s son Trick is starting his career as a large animal vet. The old Mojave man’s “cure” involves the family in a mind-bending journey along the Colorado River and a nearly-deadly encounter with his vengeful son and his friends. Book Seven of The Arizona Series—novels ...

Sacred Arrow finds Guy Thornton resurrecting the old Rawlings cattle ranch near Winslow, Arizona into a profitable bison operation and guiding tourists and researchers to the ranch’s trove of ancient petroglyphs when Bane, a White Mountain Apache, abducts the ranch owner’s five-year-old son, Jack. Accounts of Guy’s friendship with Old Trick during their rodeo years and his relationship with a Yavapai woman named Sally are woven through the story of the family’s desperate efforts to rescue young Jack.

Guy Thornton’s dreams for his new ranch on the outskirts of the small, southern Arizona town of Sonoita have hit an impasse: his wife is away in Tucson caring for her ailing father; his Yaqui housekeeper is busy participating in her tribe’s 40-day Lenten observances; and JC, the troubled teenager entrusted to him, has gone missing. When Guy’s son, Trick, rides out to investigate, he encounters the unknowable worlds of the Surem, the ancient Yaqui spirits who trouble and assist lost travelers, and returns bloodied, confused, and empty-handed. So Jasmine, Trick’s former classmate, ...

Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated—if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was 100 years ago.