Indigenous American peoples: Media
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November is the traditional time of harvest, gathering, and celebration in Native communities.
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Cliff dwellings were used during the Pueblo III period (c. 1150–1300 ce)...
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Learn how some Indigenous American peoples came to be known by names given to them...
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Overview of Bryce Canyon, southern Utah.
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A discussion of the efforts to preserve Native American culture, from the documentary...
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Learn how European American settlers drove Native Americans and bison from the Midwest...
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Native Americans, Spanish explorers, and Mormons have all left their mark on the...
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Listen to the music of the American south, and you'll hear the diverse backgrounds...
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Images
Mastodons and woolly mammoths were hunted by some Paleo-Indians. These animals were...
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Points exhibiting the characteristic channels, or flutes, that extend from mid-blade...
Courtesy, Robert N. Converse, The Archaeological Society of Ohio
Desert Archaic culture palm-sized split-twig figurines made from a single willow...
Grand Canyon Museum Collection/U.S. National Park Service
Cahokia as it may have appeared c. 1150 ce; painting...
Courtesy of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site; painting by Michael Hampshire
Children outside the Indian boarding school at Cantonment, Oklahoma, c. 1909.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Neg. no. LC-USZ62-126134)
Airboat tours at the reconstructed Seminole encampment at the Billie Swamp Safari,...
Robert Kippenberger, Seminole Tribe of Florida, Billie Swamp Safari, Big Cypress Reservation, Everglades, Florida
Olmec colossal head (8 feet [2.4 meters] high), basalt, c. 1st century bc;...
George Holton/Photo Researchers
Temple I at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Tikal, known as the Jaguar Temple,...
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Mayan fresco from Bonampak, in Chiapas, Mexico, original c. 800 ce,...
Ygunza/FPG
Aztec priest performing a sacrificial offering of a living human heart to the war...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZC4-743)
Indigenous women shopping at the Almolonga market in the western highlands of Guatemala,...
Oscar H. Horst
Death mask of gold and silver alloy with copper eyes and ears, Chimú culture (c....
Ferdinand Anton
Inca silver figurine of an alpaca, c. 1200–1400 ce;...
Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, New York
(Top) Indigenous communities in Canada and (bottom) reservations in the United States.
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Native American population density in the United States and Canada.
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