Ancestry: Governmental Documents: First English Charter for American Colonization1606

10 April 1606   King James I of England chartered two Virginia Companies, headquartered in different cities in England, to establish colonies along the coast [...]

Ancestry: Contemporary: An excerpt from “Concerning Smoke” by Jordan Paper

“The bowl of the pipe is a sacrificial vessel that itself is a miniature cosmos.  Often tobacco is added pinch by pinch, each [...]

Quotations from Black Elk, Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

  Black Elk was a holy man of the Oglala Sioux.  The following quotes are from Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy [...]

Order and Connection, A Quote from Vine Deloria Jr.

“…From observing the world around them, they could see orderly processes that marked the way organic life behaved.  From the obvious motions of the sun [...]

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