Steve Hammons has a plausible explanation for the “stoneness” of sky canoes reported by some Native American peoples. A later date should be preferred over the “early 1100s” for The Great Peacemaker Dekanawida in one story, much closer to the dates accepted for Hiawatha, the other co-founder of the Iroquois Confederacy. Continuing with the sociology […]
Group is defending lands of the Kumeyaay people
Lezmond Mitchell's execution for his part in a 2001 double murder has renewed a debate over tribal sovereignty.
As a pandemic rages across the planet’s face, no wonder the idea of aliens captures our imagination amidst hopes for salvation. Yet first contact isn’t anything new for the human race considering Jason Devaney’s collection of Native American legends of otherworldly visitation. As they say, “If the mountain won’t come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go […]
Steve Hammons asks whether the “complex and difficult history” of the area around Point Pleasant, West Virginia played any role in the Mothman incidents. Whatever the answer, Hammons’ recounting of that history and the treatment of Native Americans is of great importance and particularly apt in the light of current events. Echoing John Keel, “MIB-man” […]
A recent genomic investigation not only puts another stake in the heart of European colonialism as the first influence since the initial peopling on the Native American heritage, it also “shakes up the most popular model of where Native American genes first took root in Polynesia.” Lizzie Wade explains the import of this “excellent, exciting […]
Captain Tom Moore will praise the efforts of doctors and nurses fighting on the coronavirus frontlines before opening NHS Nightingale Yorkshire and Humber, built in Harrogate, next week.
Sturminster Newton Mill in Dorset was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 and centuries later inspired the Victorian author Thomas Hardy.
Koalas, platypuses, and some species of echidna, possum, potoroo, and dunnart were listed as "high-priority" for government intervention.
The contractor installing President Donald Trump's border wall at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is blasting a hill sacred to the O'Odham people.
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