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Flathead Tribal Grand Entry at the annual powwow in Arlee, Montana.

American Indian identity is not monolithic. The peoples of every region have distinct and unique characteristics.

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New England

The Tidewater People

The Man Who Talked With the Indians

Difficult Times: Labrador's Innu Indians

Invisible No More: Native Americans of the Northeast Have Eluded Extinction

Appalachia

Indians, Real and Wooden

Tecumseh: Nature's Patriot

A Modern-Day Sequoya: Perfecting a Cherokee Language Syllabary

Southeast

Living to Tell the Tale

The Black Seminoles of Brackettville, Texas

Jackson and the 'Savages' of America

Plains

The Real Black Elk

An American Indian's Quest for Justice

Medicine as Resistance

Wind River Women: New roles emerge Among Wyoming's Tribal Peoples

Images of the Buffalo Culture

Ferment on the Frontier: The Story of the Buffalo Soldiers

The Omaha Tribal Powwow

Suing the Conqueror

Peace From Blood: Minnesota's Pipestone Quarries

Mystical Circles of Power: The Plains Indian Shields

Kissing Sitting Bull: A Prussian Pioneer on America's Last Frontier

Real Speak: Language Revival Among the Montana Blackfeet

Setting the Story Straight

Catlin and the Indians

What Is ‘Indian Country’?

Quanah Parker: Last Chief of the Comanches

West

Mary Colter: Designs on the Canyon

Sapatq'ayn: Art of the Nez Perce Nation

Color in the River: The California Gold Rush

A Short Pine Fills a Tall Order

Twenty-one Steps: Life in California's Old Spanish Missions

The Charted Wilderness: The Map Lewis and Clark Followed

Northwest

To Teach Who We Are: Symbol and Identity in Northwest Coast Indian Art

'For the Fun of It': The 1986 World Eskimo Indian Olympics

The Totem People of the Northwest

The Flathead Indians

Southwest

Bound to the Mountain: Elders of the Sandia People Break Centuries of Silence to Defend Their Sacred Mountain

Navajo Wisdom: Treasures Are Found in the Oral History of the Navajos

Hopi Art: Constancy and Change on Arizona's Mesas

Yenaldlooshi: The Shape-Shifter Beliefs of the Navajos

The Mescalero Apaches

The Puzzle of Chimayo

They Dance for Rain: The Hopis

Keeping Balance: Arizona's Navajo Nation

'The Rain Gods Aren't Listening': Modern Conflicts Threaten Hopi Culture

Ma'ii Joldlooshi la' Eeya': The Several Lives of a Navajo Coyote

The Mysterious Matachine

Making Connections: Navajo Kids From Utah Befriend Khanty Kids in Siberia

Spider Woman's Legacy: The Art of Navajo Weaving

Impersonators of Spirits: The Hopi Kachina Season



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