Saving Native Languages and Culture in Mexico With Computer Games
by Rick Kearns: Indigenous children in Mexico can now learn their mother tongues with specialized computer games, helping to prevent the further loss of those languages across the country. “Three...
View ArticleReturn To The Sacred Hoop: 13 Aspects Of Original Thinking.
by Glenn Aparicio: Originally, our thoughts came from gratitude, because we felt blessed, loved and embraced by Mother Earth… We weren’t just living on Earth; we were embedded in and of the...
View ArticleHopi Prophecy And The End Of The Fourth World – Part 1
by Gary David: More than any other tribe in North America, the Hopi Indians have developed according to the dictates and demands of what may be called a legacy of prophecy… The predictions of the life...
View ArticleHow Dogma Trumped Science Bering Strait Theory, Pt. 1
by Alex Ewen: The discovery and examination of the ancient Mexican skeleton, Naia, has led scientists to once again rethink the origins of American Indians… While there has been a rancorous debate over...
View ArticleNew Evidence Puts Man In North America 50,000 Years Ago
Radiocarbon tests of carbonized plant remains where artifacts were unearthed last May along the Savannah River in Allendale County by University of South Carolina archaeologist Dr. Albert Goodyear...
View ArticleShamanic Healing: A New Look At An Ancient Practice
by Matt Toussaint: Shamanic healing is a multi-dimensional experience. It engages practitioner and participant on every level: emotional, psychological, personal, spiritual, physical, ideological,...
View ArticleTobacco May Be Key In New Medicines, In Fighting Ebola?
Konnie LeMay: A misused gift that Native cultures of Turtle Island shared centuries ago with the world may finally be recognized for what tradition has always known it was… Tobacco is rising again as...
View ArticleTen Mysterious Examples of Rock Art from the Ancient World
by April Holloway: Rock paintings and engravings are among the world’s oldest continuously practiced art form and are as diverse as the wide-ranging cultures and civilizations that have produced...
View ArticleBering Strait Theory, Pt. 2: Racism, Eugenics and When Natives Came to America
by Alex Ewen: Since the early 16th-century, questions about the origins of American Indians spurred a lively theological debate. By the mid-19th-century, science was taking over, but that did not end...
View ArticleSnake Medicine: How Shamanism Heals
by Robert Tindall: Animistic perspectives, which hold the cosmos as “a being to whom prayers and offerings are made, who is endowed with understanding, agency and sentience, and responds to the actions...
View ArticleAncient Stone Tool Brings New Ideas About Early Americans
byJacqueline Howard: An ancient stone tool recently discovered in the high desert of southeast Oregon has archaeologists raising their eyebrows… The tool, a hand-held scraper chipped from a piece of...
View ArticleSergio Magaña Sewing Dreams
by Jair Robles: Interview With Sergio Magaña, teacher of the Nahuatl Tradition… Re-posted by permission of SuperConsciousness: in 1968, Carlos Castaneda wrote The Teachings of Don Juan, the first of a...
View ArticleToltec Wisdom In Mastery Of Awareness
by Kalyn B Raphael: To the Toltecs one of the most important things on a spiritual path– or in life– is perception… This is because the perception one holds determines everything including our...
View ArticleGreat Spirit Wakan Tanka The Great Mystery
The Great Spirit, also called Wakan Tanka among the Sioux, The Creator, or The Great Maker in English and Gitchi Manitou in Algonquian, is a conception of a supreme being prevalent among some Native...
View ArticleNative American Shamanism
Shamanism is a system for psychic, emotional, and spiritual healing and for exploration, discovery, and knowledge gathering about non-material worlds and states of mind. Anthropologists have...
View ArticleWomen Warriors: 5 Standout Indigenous Female Leaders In Canada
by David P. Ball: “A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground,” advises a proverb commonly attributed to the Tsistsistas (Cheyenne). “Then it is done, no matter how...
View ArticleCo-Participation In Shamanism: The Dance
by Matt Toussaint: This is a dance. It takes two to transform… The shaman and participant come together and in that convergence a new spirit is created. It is a single energy, a single flowing...
View ArticleThe Olmecs: One Of The Most Advanced Ancient Civilizations on Earth
The Olmec civilization developed in the period of the Lower and Middle Preclassic, spanning from 1500 BC to 100 A.D… The name Olmec is translated to “people of the rubber country” and was awarded to...
View ArticleThe Ancient Art Of Smudging
by Lisa Charleyboy: Mystics say the Native American practice of smudging, or purifying a room with the smoke of sacred herbs, can help clear negative energy from a space… And the apparent benefits are...
View Article10 Pieces Of Wisdom & Quotes From Native American Elders
by Alanna Ketler: Before the Europeans came to America, it is estimated that anywhere from 1.2 million to 12 million Native Americans inhabited the land… The population of the Native Americans was...
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