National Geographic News
Imagine our world without chocolate or chewing gum, syringes, rubber balls, or copper tubing. Native peoples invented precursors to all these and made huge strides in medicine and agriculture.
They developed pain medicines,… more »
Category: "Native American"
by lorenz on Sep 13, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Native American, anthropology (general)
Washington Post
No other museum in the world has, on such a scale, devoted itself to this fresh and unusual approach to the story of Native Americans. Its planners have created what they call a "museum different" that might make it very hard for museu… more »
by lorenz on Sep 7, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, migration, Native American, persons and theories
Reuters
Anthropologists stepped into a hornets' nest on Monday, revealing research that suggests the original inhabitants of America may in fact have come from what is now known as Australia. The claim will be extremely unwelcome to today's native Ame… more »
by lorenz on Aug 26, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Native American, websites
Christian Science Monitor
In the 1830s, native Americans from the eastern half of the United States were being "relocated" to the West, while those already in the West were having their last experience with living in a land that was actually under the… more »
by lorenz on Aug 20, 2004 in Latin- and Central America, language, Native American, persons and theories
The Guardian
The Piraha of the Amazon have almost legendary status in language research. They have no words at all for number. They use only only three words to count: one, two, many. To make things confusing, the words for one and two, in Piraha, are… more »
by lorenz on Jul 23, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, Native American, anthropology (general)
Main theme for the annual meeting is conflict resolution, the UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation) writes.
A report was launched at the meeting in Geneva that states the potential for indigenous people to help curb the destruction of… more »
University of Berkeley News
Chochenyo, the language of the Muwekma Ohlone people, has been silent since the 1930s, but a handful of tribal members working with mentors from the University of California, Berkeley's linguistics department are bringing i… more »
by lorenz on Jun 9, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, Latin- and Central America, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, Native American
Innovations Report
"If I had one place to go to find medicinal plants, it wouldn’t be the forest," said John Richard Stepp, a University of Florida anthropologist. "There are probably hundreds of weeds growing right outside people’s doors they could u… more »
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