For a number of years now, I've had an interest in The Old West and Native American Tribes. We have framed wall pictures of Buffalo Bill Cody, the Indian Chiefs he hired to be in his Wild West Show (Chiefs: Red Cloud-Sitting Bull and Jeronimo), Wild Bill Hickok and Annie Oakley. I tell people my wife got her handgun and rifle training from Annie Oakley (LOL). I'm very interested in the Indian Wars. IOW, wife and I have more interests than just in pro-rodeo. When we arrive in Prescott, AZ the middle of this month, there is a Pow Wow going on at a local lake. Just to let those wondering know, this lake is too shallow/small for our boat. Anyway, we plan on going to that Pow Wow. We went to a Pow Wow in Denver, Colorado years ago and it was fantastic. The drums and costumes of the Grand Entry, again, fantastic! So, who here has this kind of interest? IOW, The Old West and Native American Indian Tribes?
I developed an interest for quite some time while creating that part of our directory at work. Long before that, I have had an interest in the Old West and Native Americans as they were then and before, like most American boys, I think.
I've always been interested in the Native American tribes of the northeast such as the five nations of the Iroquois Confederacy composed of the Mohawk, Cayuga,Oneida, Onondaga Seneca and Tuscarora. The Shawnee had a village just down the Susquehanna river in PA where I live. The Iroquois along with loyalists were part of the invading force responsible for the Wyoming Massacre remembered here annually.
Rather interesting, but since I've been curious about different Native American Tribes, including Southwest Tribes, I now get a pretty comprehensive story and pictures of different Tribes on my MSN Opening Page. Have learned much more about the Kiowa and now the Blackfoot. How they lived, battles with the Calvary/Army and battles between tribes. For me, highly, highly interesting!
My niece married an Apache she met working at the Grand Canyon, south rim. They divorced later because of irreconcilable differences between my niece and his mother. Shows they are pretty much like us. My youngest has been going with an American Indian (mixed tribes) He lives on his farm up on the ledge from here. He has proved it was a trading cross roads of many tribes by all the artifacts he has and is still finding there--pottery, tools, human bones, copper trinkets..Fascinating!
Life long interest to me. I did a lot of reading in my younger days but much of my knowledge came from family oral tradition.
I studied some of this decades ago and found it interesting. Native American Ancestors Came From Asia In Three Migrations Written by Catharine Paddock, Ph.D. on July 12, 2012 The ancestors of Native American populations from the tip of Chile in the south to Canada in the north, migrated from Asia in at least three waves, according to a new international study published online in Nature this week that involved over 60 investigators in 11 countries in the Americas, plus four in Europe, and Russia. In what they describe as the most comprehensive survey of genetic diversity in Native Americans so far, the researchers studied variation in Native American DNA sequences. They found that while most Native American populations descend primarily from one migration, there were two later ones that also made a significant genetic contribution.
We know a couple of Indians from the Seminole Tribe here in Florida, good people and still practice some of their ancestors' traditions.
I used to play this on the jukebox after a game Gators vs Seminoles, all the Gator fans said," get her away from that jukebox. I had lots of laughs playing that song. Mostly me doing the laughing.. I added some lyrics to it. I didn't really care about either team since I don't care for football.