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This is the story of a woman named Rene Caisse. For more than 50 years until her death in 1978 at the age of 90, she treated thousands of cancer patients, most of them written off by doctors as terminally ill, with her own secret formula. She called it Essiac – Caisse spelled backwards – [...]
Native American Entertainment Network (NAE Network) announced on March 11 the launch of its Web site, which offers free video content that features Native stories and news. The site’s content is targeted to both Native and non-Native audiences, NAE Network said in a press release. Video categories include: news, government, sports, health and wellness, lifestyle, [...]
Perched atop a mountain crest, mysteriously abandoned more than four centuries ago, Machu Picchu is the most famous archeological ruin in the Western Hemisphere and an iconic symbol of the power and engineering prowess of the Inca. In the years since Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911, there have been countless theories [...]
By Vincent Schilling Many hundreds of tourists visiting Virginia’s historic revolutionary city of Colonial Williamsburg have benefited from a live presentation of “So Far From Scioto,” a story that chronicles the lives of three Shawnee emissaries who came to Williamsburg in 1774 as part of an agreement with Lord Dunmore to cease raids on the [...]
By Mary Abbe American Indians are sensitive about portraits because their public image has so often been shaped by outsiders who tend to stereotype, romanticize, historicize, idealize or barbarize them. “Self-portraiture gives American Indian people the power to reflect back what we see in ourselves, and to put ourselves within a context that the general [...]
By Linda Silvas In 1974 the Native Americans were at the bottom of the economic ladder. They realized that something had to be done if they wanted to improve the situation. The Native American population realized they needed a medium where they could enrich their culture through the promotion of cultural awareness, employment, social services [...]
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