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 [...]
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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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May 022012
About 7 years ago I began teaching myself video game programming, and 4 years ago I began spending most of my spare time in the evenings and on weekends working on a role-playing game based on the Native American cultures that existed in Middle Tennessee in the Nashville area, around 500 to 600 years ago, during [...]
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 [...]
Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, in a panel discussion yesterday on msnbc.com’s Dylan Ratigan Show, said that recent research shows that a small number of Native Americans, mainly from around the Great Lakes, have a cluster of genes that most likely originated from a group of Europeans that migrated across the [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
On April 2, 1781, during the Native American war of resistance against the occupation of Middle Tennessee by a young United States of America, a force led by the great Cherokee war leader Dragging Canoe attacked Fort Nashboro, the founding site of the city of Nashville, located on a bluff overlooking the Cumberland River. The fight [...]
The Glass Mounds cleanup work has continued over the last few weeks. Since my last post the East mound has been sown with grass seed by Mark Norton, thanks to a personal donation from Tennessee state archaeologist Mike Moore. Chipping of the small trees and brush cut on the site continued the past two weekends, [...]
