So far I've Googled/Wiki'd ( Read more... )

Searches done: Huron, Feast of the Dead, Wyandot - online and in several print references

In the 'dispersal' era of Huron history, after being driven out of 'Huronia' by the Iroquois around 1850 1650 [major typo on my part, sorry], did the Huron (either near Detroit or Montreal) continue to observe the "Feast of the Dead" ritual as a group? If so ( Read more... )

I'm writing a comic book about cavemen. It's set in the Red River Gorge of Kentucky seven thousand years ago, at the dawn of agriculture ( Read more... )

I'm currently writing fanfiction about the Karl May books and stumbled over something which is rather, er, essential to my story: what kind of underwear would an Indian - a Comanche - wear, and what kind would be best suited for a trapper ( Read more... )

I Google'd this and browsed through the statutes for both the state of Texas and the state of New Mexico with no results which answer my question. Texas Legislature Online appears to have moved the page I need and I have no idea where I would search in their statutes. LexisNexis also failed to load the documentation for the state of New Mexico ( Read more... )

I'm trying to find any information on native Americans and the making of any sort of alcohol, whether it be for cerimonial purposes or just plain drinking. I found one reference here ( Read more... )

Preliminary searches for references on Google and Wikipedia indicate that the process of becoming blood brothers originates from either European tribal customs or from Oriental tribal customs. I am wondering this ( Read more... )

OK, I have a young boy in the latter part of the 19th century in America. One of his parents is a Native American (tentatively identified as an Apache, or possibly one of the Pueblo People). If his father wanted to disguise this fact, what ethnicity would he claim the mother was?

I'm hoping someone can help me with some information about traditional Inuit marriage (and yes I know "Inuit" is a term that applies to a lot of different people with different customs, please bear with me). I've done searches on Google and can only really find stuff of the general, "Yes, Inuit people get married!" persuasion -- okay okay, some of ( Read more... )

Does anyone know what the old (and really bad) NAtive American exhibit was called that was housed in the Smithsonian's National museum of Natural history from the 1950s until around 2003? (I thought it was something like "peoples of the Americas"). Bonus points if you know where I could find pictures of the now defunct exhibit. I know they would ( Read more... )