101. Ohio Indian Cultures, Native American Sites Mohican Reservation Festival Grounds to experience the native American tribesand more. In a scenic location along the Sandusky River, Indian Mill, http://www.placesohio.com/ohio-native-sites/

Home Campgrounds Contact Us Featured Places ... Wedding Chapels Ohio Tourism Directory Home Amish Ohio Campgrounds Ohio Camping Ohio ... Wedding Chapels Register to WIN a FREE Vacation !!! Chapel Weddings **V alley V ... Your Ad Here ! <% Dim adrot Set adrot = Server.CreateObject("MSWC.AdRotator") adrot.Border = 1 adrot.Clickable = True adrot.TargetFrame = "_blank" Response.Write(adrot.GetAdvertisement("../adrotfile.txt")) %> Ohio Native Cultures Big Bottom Named for the broad Muskingum floodplain, the three acre Big Bottom park is the site of a skirmish between Ohio Company settlers and some Delaware and Wyandot Indians on 2 January 1791. Fallen Timbers Near the site of the battle of Fallen Timbers, this small park contains a monument honoring Major General Anthony Wayne as well as smaller monuments to the soldiers and Native Americans who died in the battle. Flint Ridge Flint Ridge contains quarry pits where all of the ancient people of Ohio came to get flint for both tools and weapons. Fort Ancient Fort Ancient features 18,000 feet of earthen walls built 2,000 years ago by American Indians who used the shoulder blades of deer, split elk antler, clam shell hoes and digging sticks to dig the dirt.

102. Native American Religion In Early America - The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centu Teaching about native American religion is a challenging task to tackle with Like all other cultures, the Indian societies of North America hoped to http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/natrel.htm

from the National Humanities ... 17th and 18th Centuries Essay: Native American Religion in Early America Christine Leigh Heyrman Department of History, University of Delaware National Humanities Center Links to online resources Related info in "Getting Back to You" Works cited Teaching about Native American religion is a challenging task to tackle with students at any level, if only because the Indian systems of belief and ritual were as legion as the tribes inhabiting North America. So let's begin by trimming down that bewildering variety to manageable proportions with three glittering generalizations (which might, with luck, prove more useful than misleading). First, at the time of European contact, all but the simplest indigenous cultures in North America had developed coherent religious systems that included cosmologiescreation myths, transmitted orally from one generation to the next, which purported to explain how those societies had come into being. Second, most native peoples worshiped an all-powerful, all-knowing Creator or "Master Spirit" (a being that assumed a variety of forms and both genders). They also venerated or placated a host of lesser supernatural entities, including an evil god who dealt out disaster, suffering, and death. Third and finally, the members of most tribes believed in the immortality of the human soul and an afterlife, the main feature of which was the abundance of every good thing that made earthly life secure and pleasant.

103. Ohio Genealogical Society - Library Guide To Native American Reference Sources Guide to native American Resource Guides at the OGS Library How to ResearchAmerican Indian Blood Lines A Manual on Indian Genealogical Research. http://www.ogs.org/research/libnatamguide.php

Home Login Membership About OGS ... OGS Copy Service Guides to OGS Special Collections: African-American Research City and County Directories Family Vertical Files Native-American Research Rare Books Yearbooks Ohio Genealogical Society Library Guide to Native American Resource Guides at the OGS Library General History Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879 through 1927. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. [USA 973 NA78a] Carter, Kent. The Dawes Commission and the Allotment of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1893-1914. Orem, UT: Ancestry.com Incorporated, 1999. [USA 973 NA245d] Jahoda, Gloria. The Trail of Tears. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. [USA 973 NA197t] Loskiel, George Henry. History of the Mission of the United Brethren among the Indians in North America. London: Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel, 1794. [Rare Book - MSS Room] Malinowski, Sharon, Anna Sheets, and Linda Schmittroth, editors. U.X.L. Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. 4 vols. Detroit: U.X.L., 1999. [USA 973 NA1u]

104. Powwows - Native American Indian Powwows - Powwows - American Indian Powwows - P THE ORIGINAL NEWSLETTER ON EAST COAST AMERICAN INDIAN EVENTS. THE UNITEDSTATES BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. FOR native ENTITIES WITHIN THE STATE OF ALASKA http://www.thespike.com/tableft.htm

National News or Lumbee News Welcome Subscribe Tribes ... Guestbook [Federal Register: July 12, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 134)] [Notices] [Page 46327-46333] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr12jy02-115] [[Page 46327]] Part IV Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs; Notice [[Page 46328]] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Indian Affairs Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the current list of 562 tribal entities recognized and eligible for funding and services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs by virtue of their status as Indian tribes. This notice is published pursuant to Section 104 of the Act of November 2, 1994 (Pub. L. 103-454; 108 Stat. 4791, 4792). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Daisy West, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Tribal Government Services, MS-4631-MIB, 1849 C Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20240. Telephone number: (202) 208-2475.

105. American Indian Place Names Many American places have been named after Indian words. Wyoming from theDelaware Indian word, meaning mountains and valleys alternating ; http://www.infoplease.com/spot/aihmnames1.html

in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Daily Almanac for Sep 20, 2005 Skip Navigation Home Almanacs ... Word of the Day Editor's Favorites Hispanic Heritage Month Hurricane Katrina Daylight Saving Time Ramadan ... Mississippi Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map College Center Scholarship Search College Resources Career Center Job Search Post Your Resume Continuing Ed. more . . . Search: Infoplease Info search tips Search: Biographies Bio search tips American Indian Place Names by Borgna Brunner Many American places have been named after Indian words. In fact, about half of the states got their names from Indian words. The name of Kentucky comes from an Iroquoian word (Kentahten), which means "land of tomorrow." Connecticut's name comes from the Mohican word (Quinnehtukqut), which means "beside the long tidal river." And the word " Podunk ," meant to describe a insignificant town out in the middle of nowhere, comes from a Natick Indian word meaning "swampy place." Alabama: may come from Choctaw meaning "thicket-clearers" or "vegetation-gatherers."

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