From Religious Holidays and Calendars Although many groups of American Indians honor different holidays and follow different seasonal cycles, the holidays listed are combined in one chronological list so that common themes may be more easily identified. MORE
Studies of the myths of North and South American natives, Australian aborigines, the peoples of S Africa, and others have revealed how widespread are many mythological elements and motifs. MORE
From The New Encyclopedia of the American West Peyotism has since the late nineteenth century become the foundation of a religion that is playing a large role in the modern resurgence of Indian cultural awareness. The peyote religion is a blend of Christian and native spiritual precepts. MORE
From The Columbia Encyclopedia The classification "Native American languages" is geographical rather than linguistic, since those languages do not belong to a single linguistic family, or stock, as the Indo-European or Afroasiatic languages do. MORE
From Dictionary of Languages The Algonquian or Algonkian group includes several languages with some thousands of remaining speakers: Cree, Ojibwa, Blackfoot , Cheyenne, Micmac and Montagnais. MORE
Member of an American Indian people living in the lower Colorado River valley by the mid-16th century. They gave their name to the Yuman branch of the Hokan linguistic family, a group of American Indian languages of California and western Mexico also spoken by the Maricopa and Mojave. MORE
