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The Adena culture was a Native American culture that existed from 1000 BCE to 200 BCE, in a time known as the Early Woodland period. The Adena culture refers to what was probably a number of related Native American societies sharing a burial complex and ceremonial system.
Gambling can be traced back to early Native American history, when tribes would wager their horses, food, and other personal possessions over games such as chunkey and stickball. [5] Many Native American games, including dice games and archery, would always have bets placed on their outcomes. [8] Wagering became a culture for several tribes.
E. Irving Couse, "The Historian", 1902. Quote: "The Indian Artist is painting in sign language, on buckskin, the story of a battle with American Soldiers. When exhibited at the National Academy this picture was considered one of the most important paintings of the year. The dots he is making are bullets." [1]
Native American remains were on display in museums up until the 1960s. [129] Though many did not yet view Native American art as a part of the mainstream as of the year 1992, there has since then been a great increase in volume and quality of both Native art and artists, as well as exhibitions and venues, and individual curators.
1904: Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri features Native American art, including paintings by Silver Horn [46] and Narcissa Chisholm Owen , art by Geronimo (Chiricahua Apache), and many others; 1906–1915: Ho-Chunk artist Angel De Cora serves as director of Carlisle Indian School's Native American art program [47]
It was not until June 2, 1924 that the U.S. granted Native Americans citizenship, making the nation’s First People become the last people to gain citizenship and suffrage.
500 Nations is an eight-part American documentary television series that was aired on CBS in 1995 about the Native Americans of North and Central America. It documents events from the Pre-Columbian era to the end of the 19th century. Much of the information comes from text, eyewitnesses, pictorials, and computer graphics.
The ACLU is demanding the school change their dress code policy, claiming it violates religious freedom as it was applied to the young student.