Field Study Suggests Geoglyphs in Ancient Peru Were Made to Lead Travelers to Trade Fairs

Distribution of archaeological sites linked to Paracas period settlement in Chincha, Peru.
Redrawn from Canziani. Credit: (c) Charles Stanish, PNAS, 2014. doi: 10.1073/pnas. 1406501111.
Image Courtesy of Phys.Org.

March 6, 2014.

Bob Yirka, of Phys.Org, has written an interesting, although brief, article about new conclusions about the reasoning behind geoglyphs in the Chincha valley in southern Peru.

"The research team came to this conclusion by creating a map that showed all 71 known geoglyphs in a 15 square mile area. They also added mounds to the map, which are now Paracas excavation sites near the ocean, along with other known settlement sites. The result, the team reports, was very clear—many of the geoglyphs formed a partial starburst of sorts with mounds at their center. They made it possible for travelers coming from any easterly direction to find the trade centers—all they had to do was follow the rock lines."

-Bob Yirka, Phys.Org.

To read the full article, click here.

For more information about the Nazca Lines, 

Visit:

• "A 2,300-year-old architectural and astronomical complex in the Chincha Valley, Peru"
• Charles Stanish, Henry Tantaleán, Benjamin T. Nigra, and Laura Griffin.
• Procedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 111 no. 20, 7218-7223.

• Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Pampas de Jumana
• UNESCO World Heritage
• Nazca Lines and Geoglyphs
• NascaPeru.com
• Our Frequently Asked Questions
• UNESCO World Heritage

Meet Native America: Stephen R. Ortiz, Chairman, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation

"In the interview series Meet Native America, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian invites tribal leaders, cultural figures, and other interesting and accomplished Native individuals to introduce themselves and say a little about their lives and work. Together, their responses illustrate the diversity of the indigenous communities of the Western Hemisphere, as well as their shared concerns, and offer insights beyond what’s in the news to the ideas and experiences of Native peoples today." 
-Dennis Zotigh, NMAI 

Chairman Stephen R. Ortiz, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.
Photo by Nathan Ham Photography,
courtesy of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
and the NMAI Blog.

"Where is your nation located?

Our Government Center is in Mayetta, Kansas, located in northeast Kansas.

Where were the Prairie Potawatomi originally from?

The Great Lakes region."

To view the full interview, click here.

The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation's website.

National Park Service Announces Grants to Help Native Americans Identify and Repatriate Human Remains, Cultural Objects

August 19, 2014.

The National Park Service has awarded 29 grants to support "the efforts of museums, Indian tribes, Alaska native villages and Native Hawaiian organizations in the documentation of NAGPRA-related objects... ant to pay for the costs associated with the return of the remains and objects to their native people".

"Projects funded by the grant program includes consultations to identify and affiliate individuals 

and cultural items, training for both museum and tribal staff on NAGPRA, digitizing collection 

records for consultation, consultations regarding culturally unaffiliated individuals, as well as the 

preparation and transport of items back to their native people."

To read the rest of the news release, click here.

For more information relating the awards, 

contact Sherry Hutt, National NAGPRA Program Manager, 

at 202-354-1479 or sherry_hutt@nps.gov .

For more information about NAGPRA and cultural repatriation, Visit:

• National NAGPRA
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Laws and Regulations
• Youtube Channel
• Online Databases
• Training
• Documents and Publications
• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act as amended (NAGPRA) PDF.

• Consultation under NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
• February 2, 2014.
• Action to Combating Trafficking in Cultural Property- a documentary on UNESCO's and its partners' activities
• February 20, 2014.
• Cladoosby Hopes to Initiate Repatriation Discussion with France
• February 19, 2014.

Bowling Green State University Library Collections

"The primary mission of the CAC [Center for Archival Collections at Bowling Green State University] is to actively acquire, preserve, and make accessible to researchers historical materials in Northwest Ohio, Historical Collections of the Great Lakes, University Archives, Rare Books & Special Collections, and the National Student Affairs Archives. Emphasis is placed on local history, Great Lakes maritime history, women's history, the Civil War, education, and all aspects of the social, cultural, economic, and industrial history of northwest Ohio. "

Bowling Green State University's Library contains

 many items of interest for Ohio and Great Lakes history. 

These include:

• MS 193 mf- Thelma R. Marsh Collection
• "consists of over seven hundred index cards containing such information as birth, marriage and death dates of members of the Wyandot tribe from the Upper Sandusky area. Some vital statistics date as early as 1795."
• MS 194 mf- Kenneth Smith Collection
• "consists of approximately ten thousand index cards containing such information as birth, marriage and death dates of members of Native American tribes found in Northwest Ohio who later moved west to Oklahoma and Kansas. Vital statistics date as early as 1724. The series of cards was researched by Kenneth Smith over a period of many years. The Wyandot tribe was the first to be completed, followed by other Northwest Ohio tribes. "

• MMS 244 mf- Bureau of Indian Affairs. Ohio Agency
• "1824-1881. Correspondence received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs from government agents, native peoples, and settlers dealing with the daily lives of native peoples and tribal relations with individuals and the federal government."
• MMS 567- Florence Blackford
• "A collection of newspaper articles dealing with people and places of historical interest in Hancock County, Ohio. Includes recollections of meetings between native peoples and settlers and early findings at archeological sites."
• MMS 1062- Paul Kostyu
• "Research notes compiled by Dr. Paul Kostyu for an article on Indian land claims in Adams Township, Seneca County, Ohio."
• MMS 1730- John Shelby
• "Journal, 1832. Resident of Logan County, Ohio, appointed Assistant Conductor of Indians for the removal of the Shawnee from Ohio in 1832. Photocopy of appointment letter, and typed transcription of journal, documenting the removal of the Shawnee Indians to Indian Territory in 1832."
• MS 84- Once Upon a Time in Ohio Radio Scripts
• "radio scripts for a series of juvenile programs on Ohio history, co-produced by the Ohio State University Radio (WOSU) and the Ohio Historical Society."
• Box 2, Folder 47: "Blackhoof, Shawnee Chieftain", Oct. 17, 1960
• Box 2, Folder 57: "Joseph Brant, Friend or Foe of the White Man", Oct. 9, 1959
• Box 5, Folder 167: "Expulsion of the Indians", Nov. 18, 1952
• Box 6, Folder 191: "Tecumseh and Rebecca Galloway", Nov. 15, 1955
• Box 6, Folder 211: "Greenville Treaty", Aug. 1, 1945
• Box 7, Folder 232: "Issac Harvey, Quaker Missionary to the Indians", Mar. 28, 1950
• Box 7, Folder 252: "Indian Justice", Nov. 2, 1954
• Box 7, Folder 253: "Through Indian Territory", May 8, 1961
• Box 7, Folder 254: "Life in an Indian Village", Jan. 20, 1948
• Box 7, Folder 255: "Indians in Ohio", Oct. 1, 1941
• Box 8, Folder 283: "Chief Leatherlips: Peace Envoy 1800", Nov 6, 1945 & Oct. 16, 1956
• Box 8, Folder 292: "Chief Little Turtle", Nov. 1, 1955
• Box 9, Folder 359: "Ottawa Indian Justice", Oct. 26, 1959
• Box 10, Folder 393: "Prehistoric Blueprint: Story of Circleville", Oct. 16, 1945
• Box 10, Folder 394: "Prehistoric Ohio", Oct. 7, 1952
• Box 11, Folder 454: "Jedidiah Smith and the Early Fur Trade", Oct. 7, 1968
• Box 11, Folder 458: "Mother Solomon, Last of the Wyandots", Apr. 20, 1954
• Box 11, Folder 477: "Tecumseh and the Prophet", Apr. 19, 1949
• Box 12, Folder 487: "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too", Oct. 26, 1964
• Box 13, Folder 541: "Removal of the Wyandots", Jan 21, 1963
• Box 13, Folder 543: "Wyandot Legends", Jan 29, 1952
• Box 13, Folder 544: "Between-the-Logs: Founding of the Wyandot Mission", Jan. 29, 1946
• GLMS 9- Sault Sainte Marie Collection, Port Mackinac Paper
• "composed of shipping documents from the Sault Ste. Marie area and nearby ports from 1802-1866. Among these documents are shipping manifests, clearance documents, bills of sale, enrolment bonds, Treasury Department circulars to custom collectors at the Port of Sault Ste. Marie and nearby ports, and personal and business correspondence...Throughout this earlier period of documentation lie significant portions of documentation that dealt with the American Fur Company. A majority of shipping manifests, from small hand- written pieces of parchment for canoe-sized craft to printed manifests for more substantial vessels, listed the cargo these ships carried for the firm.After the United States solidified control of the region after the War of 1812, a significant portion of business documentation, correspondence, and shipping documentation belong to the personal papers of three prominent individuals in the Sault Ste Marie region, Peter B. Barbeau, Myron W. Scranton, and George Johnston. The former two individuals were prominent businessmen, the latter was an Indian agent in the area and eventual governor of Michigan. The documents of Peter B. Barbeau and Myron Scranton are a useful supplement to the researcher concerned with business and economic documentation associated with Sault Ste. Marie in the nineteenth Century. The documents of George Johnston are equally useful to researchers concerned with Indian Affairs in the Lake Superior region."

• Hours & Location
• FAQs
• Using the Collections

NEH and NSF Award More Than $4 Million to Preserve Nearly 40 Languages

Ethnobotanical notetaking for the DEL project Advances in
Linguistic, Ethnobotanical, and Botanical Sciences through
Documentation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
Image Courtesy of the NEH.

August 18, 2014.

Paula Wasley, of the National Endowment for the Humanities, has written an exciting and informative article about recent efforts by the National Endowment for the Humanites (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to digitally document and preserve nearly 40 endangered languages. Their goal is to "build research infrastructure, encourage long term collaboration with host countries and involve significant community engagement".

" “Language is a source of invaluable cognitive, historical and environmental information,” said NSF Director France Córdova.  “Most of what is known about human communication and cognition is based on less than 10 percent of the world’s 7,000 languages.  We must do our best to document living endangered languages and their associated cultural and scientific information before they disappear."

New estimates from a three-year, NSF-supported study conclude that at least every three months somewhere in the world a language loses all its remaining speakers.  The finding, based on newly compiled data, is an update from previous estimates that found at least one language goes extinct every two weeks."

-Paula Wasley, National Endowment for the Humanities.

To read the full article, click here.

Open Letter to Haudenosaunee

Image Courtesy of the Center for World Indigenous Studies,
Fourth World Eye Blog.

July 29, 2014.

Rudolph C. Rÿser, of the Fourth World Eye Blog, has posted an interesting and informative open letter by Kenneth Deer about the importance of indigenous governments' communication with each other to meet upcoming future challenges.

"Indigenous nations will have different goals, but it is important that the different goals become refined and understandable since the day will soon come when there is a table at which they will sit to enter into dialogue and negotiations addressing the future political status of indigenous nations."

-Kenneth Deer, posted on the Fourth World Eye Blog.

To read the full post, click here.

For more information, Visit:

• United Nations World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples PDF.
• United Nations, Indigenous Organizations Prepare for World Conference.
• August 8, 2014.

Indigenous Law Portal

The Law Library of Congress Indigenous Law Portal Map.
Image Courtesy of In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress.

July, 31, 2014.

Tina Gheen, of In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress Blog, has written an interesting post about the goals and functions of the new Indigenous Law Portal which contains collection materials from the Law Library of Congress, links to tribal websites and primary source materials available on the web arranged by region within the United States. Work is expected to begin soon on collating Canada's indigenous materials.

"Indigenous law materials can be difficult to locate for a variety of reasons. Tribal laws are usually maintained by individual tribes or groups of tribal peoples who may or may not have the resources to make them available in electronic format, or they may only be passed on through oral tradition. In some cases tribal legal materials are available electronically, but they may not be available freely on the Web, or the tribe may want to restrict outside access to the materials. However, through our research, we have found many tribes compile their laws and ordinances into a code, and they often provide a digital version of their most recent code and constitution online. In the Law Library, we already have digitized copies of historic 

American Indian constitutions from our collection and other legal materials available on our website. 

It makes sense to bring all these materials together in one place."

-Tina Gheen, In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress.

To read the full post, click here.

Indigenous Law Portal

• Class KIA-KIX Law of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas (PDF)
• a "new classification schedule... to provide for the first time a geopolitical and substantive arrangement for the Indigenous populations in the Americas, their organization, and the unique and complex body of legal sources."
• General Resources
• Global Resources
• Center for the World Indigenous Studies
• Indigenous Law Journal
• TEBTEBBA- Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education
• United States Resources
• Law Gateways
• Directories
• Research Guides
• Indian Law Societies
• Land Law
• Economic Law
• Social Services
• Environmental Law
• Medical Legislation
• Education
• Nationality and Citizenship
• Public Property
• Courts and Procedure
• Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO)
• Indian Law Resource Center
• International Indian Treaty Council
• National Indigenous Organizations
• American Indian Development Associates
• National Congress of American Indians
• Tribal Law and Policy Institute
• National Regions
• North Central (Ohio)

Indian Affairs: Laws & Treaties, compiled & edited by Charles J. Kappler

Oklahoma State University Library has digitally uploaded Charles J. Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties book which "is an historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII). The work was first published in 1903-04 by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Enhanced by the editors' use of margin notations and a comprehensive index, the information contained in Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties is in high demand".

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties.

• Volume I: Laws, Compiled to Dec. 1, 1902.
• Permanent General Laws Relating To Indian Affairs
• Permanent Acts Relative to Particular Tribes
• Executive Orders Relative to Indian Reserves
• Proclamations
• Appendices
• Revised Spelling of Indian Names
• Miscellaneous Orders and Documents Pertaining to Executive Orders Establishing Reserves
• Decisions of the Supreme Court
• Volume II: Treaties, 1778-1883.
• Treaties By Tribe Name
• Treaties by Year
• Volume III: Laws, Compiled to Dec. 1, 1913.
• Laws Relating to Indian Affairs
• Proclamations
• Executive Orders
• Agreements
• Statement of Funds Held in Trust
• Title "Indians" from CYC (Reprinted with new cases)
• Volume IV: Laws, Compiled to Mar. 4, 1927.
• Laws Relating to Indian Affairs
• Proclamations
• Executive Orders
• Treaties
• Indian Treaties construed by the Supreme Court of the United States
• Jurisdiction; Indian rights
• Indian tribal funds
• Appendix
• Volume V: Laws, Compiled to Dec. 22, 1927- June 29, 1938.
• Laws Relating to Indian Affairs
• Addenda to Laws in Volumes IV and V
• Proclamations of the President of the United States
• Executive Orders Relating to Indian Reservations
• Unratified treaties with Indian tribes
• Important court decisions on Indian tribal rights and property
• Docket of Indian claims cases pending in the Court of Claims, Dec. 1938
• List of Indian claims cases decided by the Court if Claims and reported in Court of Claims Reports, Vol. 1-90
• Indian tribal funds
• Volume VI: Laws, Compiled from Feb. 10, 1939 - Jan. 13, 1971.
• Laws Relating to Indian Affairs
• Volume VII: Laws, Compiled from Feb. 10, 1939- Jan. 13, 1971.
• Proclamations
• Selected Provisions of United States Code, 1970 edition
• Education
• Highways
• Mineral Lands and Mining
• Navigation and Navigable Waters
• Public Buildings, Property, and Works
• The Public Health and Welfare
• Public Lands
• Executive and Departmental orders (1936-1971)
• Federal Register-Delegations of Authority by the Secretary of the Interior
• Tables of Statutes affected

Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations

-not compiled by Charles J. Kappler,

 but are still important federally recognized treaties available online 

from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Electronic Text Center.

• The Great Treaty of 1722 Between the Five Nations, the Mahicans, and the Colonies of New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania
• Deed in Trust from Three of the Five Nations of Indians to the King, 1726.
• A Treaty Held at the Town of Lancaster, By the Honorable the Lieutenant Governor of the Province, and the Honorable the Commissioners for the Province of Virginia and Maryland, with the Indians of the Six Nations in June, 1744.
• Treaty of Logstown, 1752.
• The Albany Congress, and Treaty of 1754.
• At a Conference Held by the Honourable Brigadier General Moncton with the Western Nations of Indians, at the Camp before Pittsburgh, 12th Day of August 1760.
• Treaty of Fort Stanwix, or the Grant from the Six Nations to the King and Agreement of Boundary Line- Six Nations, Shawnee, Delaware, Mingoes of Ohio, 1768.
• Convention Between the State of New York and the Oneida Indians, June 1, 1768.
• A Treaty Between the United States of America and the sachems, chiefs, and warriors, of the Wyandot, Ottawa, Chippewa, Munsee, and Delaware, Shawnee, and Pattawatamy nations, holden at fort Industry, on the Miami of the lake, on the 4th of July, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and five.

American Indian Treaties Portal 

University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Adobe Typekit Introduces Cherokee Font

The subscription font service Adobe Typekit has released its first Native American font, Phoreus Cherokee.  Font designer Mark Jamra was inspired by a speech given by representatives from the Language Technology Office of the Cherokee Nation about the need to integrate native languages with modern technology.  Jamra studied manuscripts provided by the Cherokee Nation and the Smithsonian Institution to develop the font. 

“A key component of any language preservation effort is the degree to which one can successfully teach it to children, and influence young people to continue everyday use. Adoption by succeeding generations is critical. To help with this, Mark focused particular attention on making the glyphs distinct and uncomplicated. This resulted in type which is not only easier to read and learn, but also in a typeface with traditional Latin forms that are beautiful in their own right, and can stand on their own. We can’t stress enough that one does not need to speak or write Cherokee to get value out of these fonts.”

Read the full article onThe Typekit Blog. 

Recent Excavation May Reveal Cahokia Mounds Inhabitants' Beliefs

July 26, 2014.

Will Boss, of BND.com, has written an interesting and short article about recent discoveries from archaeological excavations at Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian settlement site north of Mexico.

"The Mississippians lived in the region between 900 A.D. and 1275 A.D. Between 10,000 and 20,000 people lived in the land known as Cahokia Mounds, Belknap said. The Mississippians were not a tribe, but a culture that spread as far north as Wisconsin and has far south as Florida and Oklahoma. But the Cahokia Mounds site, where 120 mounds have been located, was the epicenter."

-Will Boss, BND.com.

To read the full article, click here.

For more information about Cahokia, 

visit the Cahokia Mounds' website, 

or the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site UNESCO World Heritage Page.

New Radiocarbon Dates Suggest Serpent Mound is More Than 2,000 Years Old

July 26, 2014.

Dr. William F. Romain, of The Ancient Earthworks Project Blog, has written an interesting and informative post about new radiocarbon dates for the Serpent Mound suggesting that it is more than 2,000 years old.

"In any event, none of the median ages reported from any of our contexts within Serpent Mound are younger than 303 BC. In particular, no Fort Ancient charcoal was found in the sampled mound fill, or at the base of Serpent Mound. If the effigy was built by anyone later than Adena-era people, then one might expect to find some evidence of that in the way of organic materials or charcoal at the base. Such was not the case, however. If someone other than Early Woodland (i.e., Adena) people built the Serpent Mound, they were very fastidious in their work and left no trace at the foundation level. "

-Dr. William F. Romain, The Ancient Earthworks Project Blog.

To read the full post, click here.

A new multistage construction chronology 

for the Great Serpent Mound, USA

• Edward W. Hermann, G. William Monaghan, William F. Romain, Timothy M. Schilling, Jarrod Burks, Karen L. Leone, Matthew P. Purtill, Alan C. Tonetti
• Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 50, October 2014, Pages 117-125.

Video Courtesy of The Ancient Ohio Trail.

For more information about 

Radiocarbon Dating, LiDAR,  

& the Serpent Mound, 

Visit:

• Dating: The Radiocarbon Way
• GNS Science, The Archaeology Channel.
• Why is Radiocarbon Dating Important to Archaeology?
• California State Parks
• Fundamentals of Radiocarbon Dating
• Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database
• Technical Details of Radiocarbon Dating
• Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database
• What is LiDAR?
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.
• Serpent Mound
• Ancient Ohio Trail.
• World Heritage Nomination for the Serpent Mound
• History Got it Wrong: Scientist Now Say Serpent Mound as Old as Aristotle
• Geoffrey Sea, Indian Country Today
• August 7, 2014.
• Remembrance of Things Past- The Age of Serpent Mound
• Robert Fletcher, Ohio History Connection Archaeology Blog.
• April 20, 2014

Ohio State Fair Butter Sculptures Honor State's History

Butter sculpture at the 2014 Ohio State Fair
of our State Artifact, the Adena Effigy Pipe.
Image Courtesy of the Ohio History Connection Archaeology Blog.

July 23, 2014.

Kathy Lynn Gray, of The Columbus Dispatch, wrote and filmed an interesting article about this year's butter sculptures at the Ohio State Fair. The Adena Effigy Pipe, our state artifact, and Flint, our state gemstone(link), are both represented as Ohio symbols in the butter sculpture display at the Ohio State Fair.

"So many sculptures were in the works this year that the artists ran out of the 55-pound blocks of butter they normally use and had to order in 1-pound blocks.
About a half-million people typically visit the sculptures at the fair, which runs through Aug. 3."
-Kathy Lynn Gray, The Columbus Dispatch.

To read the full article, click here.


For more information, visit:

• Archaeology Team at the 2014 Ohio State Fair
• Brad Lepper, Ohio History Connection Archaeology Blog.
• July 24, 2014.
• Adena Effigy Pipe Featured as Butter Sculpture at the Ohio State Fair
• Brad Lepper, Ohio History Connection Archaeology Blog.
• July 22, 2014.
• Adena Effigy Pipe
• Ohio History Connection.
• State Artifact- Adena Pipe
• Profile Ohio.
• Flint
• Ohio History Connection.
• State Gemstone-Ohio Flint
• Profile Ohio.
• The Plains Indians, Artists of Earth & Sky
• April 21, 2014
• Traveling Adena Pipe
• April 11, 2014.
• Ohio's Adena Effigy Pipe Featured in International Art Exhibit
• April 4, 2014.

History & Reconstruction of Native American Flutes in the Dayton C. Miller Collection

2013.

Barry D. Higgins (White Crow) gave a lecture on the historic traditions, creation, and  of Native American instruments, particularly flutes for the Library of Congress webinar series. The Library of Congress has a collection of over 190 webinar casts available on Youtube on a variety of topics including:

• History & Reconstruction of Native American Flutes in the Dayton C. Miller Collection 
• Barry D. Higgins
• Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946
• Jim Leary
• Advances in Raman Spectroscopy for Analysis of Cultural Heritage Materials
• Exploring Cultural Heritage Collections with Viewshare
• Authenticity of Print Materials
• How to Find Stuff at the Largest Library in the World
• Diving Deep in a Pool of Pictures: Prints and Photographs Online
• Oral History in the Digital Age
• Web Archiving at the British Library
• Other Cultures Within: Beyond the Naming of Things
• The Quiet People: A Memoir
• Kelle Groom
• Seasons of A Navajo [1983]
• R. Carlos Nakai: American Indian Flute Music from Arizona
• Cultural Property Rights of Indigenous People

For more information about Native American music traditions

 or the Dayton C. Miller Collection, visit:

• The Ancient Ohio Trail
• Artistry and Architecture
• Music
• Music and Authenticity

• Chickasaw.tv
• Chickasaw River Culture
• Traditional Songs and Dance
• Making a Flute
• How Flutes are Made
• When the Animals Spoke: Woodpecker and the Flute
• Fluteopedia
• Dayton C. Miller Collection, The Library of Congress

College Students Research Prophetstown & Canoe Through History

Mark Ressl and Karl Sculz.
Image Courtesy of Darke County News Online.

June 2013.

Bob Robinson, of Darke County News Online, has written an interesting article about Mark Ressl and Karl Schulz's research into the historical origin of the correct location for Prophetstown.

" “I first had an interest in The Prophet when I visited Prophetstown in Indiana,” Ressl said. “I saw what I felt were possible inconsistencies… things that didn’t seem right (in the depiction of the early settlement).” He noted some of the ways in which the structures were built, that the area seemed more for political rallies and camping.

He didn’t realize it at the time but the Indiana location wasn’t the first Prophetstown. The first was in Greenville."

-Bob Robinson, Darke County News Online.

To read the full article, click here.

June 19, 2013.

Jennifer Archibald, of the Carroll County Comet, also wrote an article about the two architect students from New York who were following "the trail that Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother, the Prophet, led from their village in Ohio to a new settlement in Indiana."

"They walked from Greenville, Ohio, the site of Tecumseh’s and the Prophet’s first Prophetstown village, to Deerfield, Ind. It was there, at the headwaters of the Mississinewa River, that the Shawnees began their river journey, and where Mark and Karl began theirs.

The students’ journey from Ohio to Battle Ground, Ind., went through eight counties. After Darke County in Ohio, the route went through Randolph, Delaware, Grant, Miami, Cass, Carroll, and Tippecanoe counties in Indiana."

-Jennifer Archibald, Carroll County Comet.

To read the full article, click here.

February 2014.

The 2014 Menschel Exhibition, hosted by 

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 

presented the award winners for the 2013 Benjamin Menschel Fellowship Program 

in which "students compete for this prestigious award by submitting proposals to a panel of judges. 

The students then work over the summer on their independent research, often in far flung places."

A summary of Tecumseh and the Prophet's Trail: Reconnecting Routes 

by Karl Schulz & Mark Ressl can be found 

in the exhibit's catalog, here.

For more information about Tecumseh and the Prophet, 

Visit:

• A Native Nations Perspective on the War of 1812
• Donald Fixico
• Ohio History Central
• Tecumseh
• Tenskwatawa, the Prophet
• History.com
• Tecumseh at Tuckabatchee: Fact and Fiction
• AlabamaArchives

• Infinity of Nations Collection
• July 8, 2014.
• One State Many Nations
• June 17, 2014.
• Historic Pipe Will be Exhibited in Oklahoma
• November 20, 2013.
• A Flag of the Fathers
• November 4, 2013.

Bridging Cultures Webinar: The History of Stomp Dance

July 8, 2014.

Chief Glenna J. Wallace and Brett Barnes of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma presented a webinar on "the tradition of Stomp and Social Dances in Eastern Woodlands Tribes and the role they play in communities today."

To watch the recording, click here.

This webinar is part of a series for 

Native Americans in the Midwest: Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges; 

a three year project which is attempting to record and preserve some of the history 

for Ohio's historic Native American tribes.

This project "will strengthen the content of Native Studies’ community college curricula and tell a more complete story of forced removal and its impact on Native American tribes. Through a partnership between NEO A&M in Miami, Oklahoma, and OHS in Columbus, Ohio, BCCC-NAM will provide professional development for community college faculty by compiling historical resources for Midwestern Native American history, exposing community college faculty to scholars and Native American experts, and bringing them to locations that are critical to the Midwestern Removal story."

Clip of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma's Stomp Dance 

at the Newark Earthworks in August 2012.

Video is Courtesy of The Newark Earthworks Center.

Telling our Story: The Living History of the Myaamia

The Myaamia Center has developed a curriculum for grades 3-12 that tells the history of the Myaamia (Miami) tribe from pre-contact through today.

"Telling our Story: The Living History of the Myaamia provides teachers and home schooling families with a curriculum for teaching Myaamia (Miami Tribe) history to grades 3-12. The curriculum includes primary sources, images, videos, and lesson plans, which are all linked to the relevant content standards for Ohio, Indiana, and Oklahoma."

 

 "As a whole, the six sections of this curriculum address Myaamia history beginning with the pre-contact period (pre-1600s) and concluding with contemporary issues." 

Power Point slide presentations, downloadable lesson plans, an online language dictionary,

and pictures of artifacts are just a few of the many wonderful resources available to educators 

through this online curriculum.

 Examples of the primary source documents available on the site 

include the Indians in Ohio History map, above, 

and the Treaty of Montreal, pictured below.  

Treaty of Montreal. Courtesy of the Library and Archives Canada.