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Institute For American Indian Studies (IAIS) is a museum and research center in Washington, Connecticut. It is dedicated to preserving and sharing the culture and history of Native American peoples, particularly those from the Northeastern Woodlands . [ 1 ]
Formalized archaeology in the area began in the early 20th century with the accumulation of artifacts from Gill in 1915 and 1916 that are now in the collection of the American Indian Archaeological Institute in Washington, DC. It has continued at low levels of activity throughout the 20th century.
The Mashantucket Pequot Reservation Archeological District is a historic district in the northeast corner of the town of Ledyard, Connecticut.The district includes nearly 1,638 acres (6.63 km 2) of archeologically sensitive land in the northern portion of the uplands historically called Wawarramoreke by the federally recognized Mashantucket Pequot Tribe.
Confluence of Bear Creek and Sammamish River in Redmond, Washington, near the archaeological site. In 2008, during a routine archaeological survey conducted as part of a stream restoration project, stone artifacts were discovered at Bear Creek, between Marymoor Park and nearby Redmond Town Center shopping mall. In 2009–2014, more artifacts ...
Native American heritage sites are sites specifically created in many National Park Sites in the United States to commemorate the contribution of the Native American cultures. The term ‘Native American’ includes all cultural groups that predate the arrival of either western European or East coast explorers and settlers.
Warren K. Moorehead was born Warren King Moorehead on March 10th, 1866 in Siena, Italy.His parents, Helen King and Dr. William G. Moorehead, were missionaries. [1] His mother died when he was quite young, and while his father remarried and became head of a Presbyterian seminary in Xenia, Ohio, [1] his travels for keeping that institution open left young Warren and his sister in the care of two ...
Frances Densmore with Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief during a recording session for the BAE. The Bureau of American Ethnology (or BAE, originally, Bureau of Ethnology) was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Indians of North America from the Department of the Interior to the Smithsonian Institution.
New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. and American Institute of Indian Studies. Possehl, Gregory L., 1987–1988. Indian Archaeology, A Review: Guide to excavated sites 1953–54 through 1983–84. Puratattva (Bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society) 18: 113–172. Possehl, Gregory L., 1989.