This section of my site is dedicated to a culture, a race of people, a spirit of life that has inhabited this land for thousands of years. It still lives on even though for the past five hundred years it has been under siege which often has been brutal and murderous. I put this together so that more people might gain a better understanding and awareness of a part of our history that traditionally has been glorified and celebrated, but infact was very tragic. There is a silver lining in the fact that we still survive today, though we struggle to keep our culture alive. Many to this day are hungy and homeless do the five hundred years of oppression that they have suffered. People admire and collect items fashioned after Native cultures learning dates, names and other facts about famous wars with Indians of the 1800's. We learn that Indians helped early explorers in their quests to chart unknown reaches of North America. That is all great, but that is only a small part of the story of a five hundred year invasion. My own father was born and raised on a reservation. Scroll down for links to read (for free) non-fiction short stories about Native Americans from a series that I published titled "Native American Heros of the West" (The links to my stories are temporarily disabled you can e-mail me for coppies of the ones you wish to read! |
Get a free e-mail address and view Flags of Indian Nations |
Through her eyes, on the Reservation. | Chief Joseph | Peace on earth, Good will toward all men, Wounded Knee | Chief Seattle's letter to the U.S. government | Shamans & Medicine Men | The first participatory Democracy | They Watched | Lipan Apache | Lenape, an ancient American Language | Vision Quest | The Fab Four, a little about 4 Chickasaw brothers| More of my published articles on other subjects | |
New material is added to this site daily so come back soon. To see rare historic photographs from the late 1800's through the early 1900's "Click Here" |
Welcome to the; History of the People |
Here you will find a collection of photographs and stories of the ancient peoples of North America. There are links to tribes at the bottom. |
Grandmother Grace |
Grace Sakota, one of only 11,000 surviving members of the South Paiute Tribe. Grace was born on the painted desert in Arizona at the end of the 19th century. Grace lives on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. As of July 1999, my last visit, she was well. Grace is homeless. I track her down whenever I visit the reservation and do what I can for her, or I should say what ever she will allow me to do for her. She is a proud person. She told me that she was hungry when she was little and after 100 years she is still hungry. She said that she survives on the faith that she has, that someday the Creator will return and restore everything and right all of the wrongs that evil men have done. |
Grace first became homeless when soldiers killed her family in a raid around 1900. Many Indian children of that time were taken from their families and put into white schools and forced to learn to become like white people and forced to give up any and all of their indian ways including their language. Grace was taken in by a small band of her people who lived off of the reservation in a remote part of the desert southwest where she avoided being taken to the white schools. She says that she is glad to stay Paiute. |
Click below for the home-page of the tribe that you wish to visit. |
New material is added to this site daily so come back soon. To see rare historic photographs from the late 1800's through the early 1900's "Click Here" |
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To read some of my stories click on a title from the list below. The links to my stories are temporarily disabled do to the fact that one of the internet publishers that I used went out of business. |
Through her eyes, on the Reservation. | Chief Joseph | Peace on earth, Good will toward all men, Wounded Knee | Chief Seattle's letter to the U.S. government | Shamans & Medicine Men | The first participatory Democracy | They Watched | Lipan Apache | Lenape, an ancient American Language | Vision Quest | The Fab Four, a little about 4 Chickasaw brothers| More of my published articles on other subjects | |
Get a free e-mail address and view Flags of Indian Nations |
Did you know that on many Indian Reservations today there is an infant mortality rate of nearly 80%? |
This section of my site is dedicated to a culture, a race of people, a spirit of life that has inhabited this land for thousands of years. It still lives on even though for the past five hundred years it has been under siege which often has been brutal and murderous. I put this together so that more people might gain a better understanding and awareness of a part of our history that traditionally has been glorified and celebrated, but infact was very tragic. There is a silver lining in the fact that we still survive today, though we struggle to keep our culture alive. Many to this day are hungy and homeless do the five hundred years of oppression that they have suffered. People admire and collect items fashioned after Native cultures learning dates, names and other facts about famous wars with Indians of the 1800's. We learn that Indians helped early explorers in their quests to chart unknown reaches of North America. That is all great, but that is only a small part of the story of a five hundred year invasion. My own father was born and raised on a reservation. Scroll down for links to read (for free) non-fiction short stories about Native Americans from a series that I published titled "Native American Heros of the West" (The links to my stories are temporarily disabled you can e-mail me for coppies of the ones you wish to read! |
