“Red Legacy” is intended to raise awareness and provide a perspective for those persons who share a passion or merely an interest in the multi-cultural diversity that exists in their own lives or within the Native American community as a whole. Millions of mixed-race people in the United States can claim ancestry back to the [...]
The extent of the peril facing the world’s ‘most threatened tribe’ was revealed today, as Brazilian authorities admitted that the Awá tribe are now outnumbered 10:1 inside just one of their reserves. Officials acknowledged the scale of the emergency after receiving over 20,000 messages of protest following the launch of Survival’s campaign to save the [...]
May 042012
Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park is hosting a Knap-In, a “3-day celebration of Flintknapping, Atlatl, and Stone Age Skills”, this weekend, May 4, 5, and 6, at 732 Stone Fort Drive, Manchester, Tennessee. They’ll also have basket weaving and other native crafts. For more information please contact the park office at 931-723-5073 or email keith.wimberley@tn.gov. Old Stone [...]
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Oscar-winning film star Colin Firth has launched a major Survival International campaign to save ‘Earth’s most threatened tribe’ – the Awá of the Brazilian Amazon. The centerpiece of the campaign is a short film, featuring an appeal by Colin Firth and music by Grammy-winning composer Heitor Pereira. The Awá are a small tribe whose territory has been invaded [...]
Apr 202012
Senate Bill 2177, which would establish criteria for recognizing Indian tribes in Tennessee and grant tribal recognition to 6 specified groups, is scheduled to be voted on by the full Senate on April 24, 2012. The Senate State and Local Government Committee passed the bill on April 3 and referred it to the Senate Finance, Ways and [...]
Read the article, watch the video, and see photos of these beautiful guitars at cherokeephoenix.org: Cherokees Create Artwork Using Guitars
Apr 142012
On Tuesday, April 10, the Tennessee House of Representatives State and Local Government Committee deferred action on HB 2284, which would establish “standards for state recognition of Native American Indian tribes” and grant recognition as tribes to six groups, voting to send it to “summer study”. This action probably means that further action on the bill will not [...]
Dr. Kevin E. Smith, director of anthropology at Middle Tennessee State University, will give a lecture on the Glass Mounds during a meeting of the Middle Cumberland Archaeological Society (MCAS) on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 7 pm. The meeting will be held at Clover Bottom Mansion, located at 2941 Lebanon Pike in Nashville. The mounds were [...]
Apr 042012
SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Peru’s government is ignoring new UN guidelines on the protection of uncontacted Indians in the Amazon. Instead of backing the UN’s landmark report, which supports the tribes’ right to be left alone, Peru is allowing the country’s largest gas project to expand further into indigenous territories known to house numerous uncontacted [...]
Apr 032012
Tennessee Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey cast a tie-breaking vote for the Senate State and Local Government Committee this afternoon to pass Senate Bill 2177, which establishes standards for state recognition of Native American Indian tribes. The bill as introduced would also grant state recognition as a tribe to three groups, and an amendment was added today to [...]
