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New Mexico's pueblos have a history with the federal government unlike any other American Indian tribe.
They never signed treaties, and with that came decades of a dual existence. On one hand, they didn't fit the mold the government had established for native people. Still, they were Indian enough to be subjected to policies that called for them to trade in their native languages and send their children to boarding school.
For the first time, the pueblos have come together to offer their own historical perspective on the effects of 100 years of state and federal policy as part of an exhibit at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque.
Read more about: New Mexico's Pueblo Cultures
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The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, providing enough food for 53 Pilgrims and 90 Native Americans.The feast consisted of fish (cod, eels, and bass) and shellfish (clams, lobster, and mussels), wild fowl (ducks, geese, swans, and turkey), venison, berries and fruit, vegetables (peas, pumpkin, beet root and wild or cultivated onion), harvest grains (barley and wheat), and the Three Sisters: beans, dried maize (corn), and squash. |
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Mailbag Question
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Question:
Did the Blackfeet Indians develop a particular breed of horse?
~Submitted by John L.
Answer:
It's generally accepted that the Blackfeet got horses from the Nez Perce and Flatheads around 1730. Animals bred from their own herds comprised a good proportion of the horses owned by the Blackfoot in 19th-century buffalo days.
Many Horses and Many-White-Horses are mentioned frequently in discussions of Blackfeet breeding practices, and were among the most sucessful horse breeders. The Blackfoot believed that those men who were very successful in raising horses possessed a secret power that insured their success in that enterprise.
Horse medicine (ponok�mita sa�m) was and still is considered the most secret and one of the most powerful medicines of the Blackfoot people. Few Blackfoot are willing to discuss its intricacies.
Read more about the Blackfeet horse.
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'Where I am From,' a Poem By Turtle Mountain Seventh-Grader Trevis LaRocqueWhen given the assignment to write a poem in his seventh-grade English class at Turtle Mountain Community Middle School in Belcourt, North Dakota, Trevis J. LaRocque, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, chose to write about where he was from-the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation.
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