Pre-Columbian/Native American History and Archaeology

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Jackson Sundown, the legendary Nez Perce cowboy:


frontierpartisans.com/6221/jackson-sundown/

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The 1688 expedition of Louis Lahontan west of the Mississippi:


colonialseminar.uga.edu/P.%20Wood%20Paper.pdf


His account and maps provide a tantalizing picture of several pre-contact First Nations peoples.

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The volcanic stone tools of the Vancouver tribes:



warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/study-on-b-c-first-nations-stone-tools-debunks-theory-about-their-origin/#more-7154

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A look at the diets of Native Americans during tribal times:



warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2014/09/23/guts-and-grease-the-diet-of-native-americans/

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Berta Caceres, one of the foremost defenders of indigenous rights in Central America, has been killed as the result of what police are calling a "botched robbery":

frontierpartisans.com/6448/indigenous-leader-murdered/

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Very interesting if this pans out:



www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Stonehenge-in-Lake-Michigan.html

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Recent NatGeo article on the "White City of the Monkey God":


ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/lost-city/preston-text

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Francis Pegahmagabow is the most highly decorated First Nation veteran in Canadian history. An Ojibwa, he is credited with 378 kills, plus the capture of 300 Germans:


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pegahmagabow


www.turtletrack.org/Issues14/CO09_2014/CO_0914_Ojibwa_Hero.htm

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A very interesting mtDNA genetic study of Amerindian populations:



advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/4/e1501385.figures-only

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Genomic research gives "Clovis First" another kick in the teeth:


www.unz.com/gnxp/early-and-rapid-settlement-of-the-new-world/


As always, this early dating calls into question the theory that places all the blame for the rapid megafaunal extinctions in the Americas on human agents.

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Joe Medicine Crow, last war chief of the Crow nation, has died at the age of 102:


frontierpartisans.com/6718/joe-medicine-crow-rip/

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3525855/Crow-Tribe-war-chief-buried-veterans-cemetery.html

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Frontier Partisans looks at the Mandan tribe, as well as the general die-off in the Americas due to Old World diseases:



frontierpartisans.com/6743/great-die-off/

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A new Nazca geoglyph has been found:



www.ibtimes.co.uk/nazca-lines-mysterious-new-animal-geoglyph-discovered-peruvian-desert-1558441

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Strong evidence for a pre-Clovis mastadon hunt:



frontierpartisans.com/7119/deep-history-native-america/

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On November 5, 1862, 38 Santee Sioux were hung in the largest mass execution in US history:




www.history.com/this-day-in-history/300-santee-sioux-sentenced-to-hang-in-minnesota