American Indians Tell Their Untold
Civil War Stories After 150 Years
Civil War Stories After 150 Years
The National Park Service, American
Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of
Indian Education and Eastern National release the book American Indians
and the Civil War
Albuquerque, New Mexico (June 3,
2013) –The National
Park Service (NPS) made a landmark commitment to include American Indian voices
in the 2011-2015 150th anniversary commemoration of America’s Civil
War. To honor that commitment, NPS partnered with the American Indian Alaska
Native Tourism Association (AIANTA), the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Bureau
of Indian Education (BIE) and publisher Eastern National to produce the cultural
heritage interpretive book, American Indians and the Civil War (AICW)
available this month.
A little known but crucial part of
Civil War stories is that more than 20,000 American Indians fought on both sides
of the conflict. Most thought their participation would guarantee their survival
and protect their lands. Instead, federal Indian policy became more savage
during the war, and when it was over, a reunited nation turned its vision to
westward expansion, overrunning Indian lands and decimating Native
populations.
“AICW is an important new tool for
cultural heritage tourism. Our goal at AIANTA has always been to help Indian
Country link its historical interpretations to landscape,” said Sammye Meadows,
AIANTA Senior Public Lands Partnership Coordinator and AICW contributing author.
“Because of instrumental partnerships with NPS, BIA, BIE and Eastern National,
American Indians will now be referenced in American History
teachings.”
Book authors include 11 Native
American and non-Native American scholars from across the country, including
Editor Robert K. Sutton, Daniel Wildcat and Elliot West.
Through a cooperative agreement between the
BIA and AIANTA, AICW copies will be sent to tribal colleges and universities,
Indian primary and secondary schools across America and tribal museums and
cultural centers. For more information, please visit www.AIANTA.org.
The book will be available later this
month at www.eParks.com and in select national
parks across the country for $9.95.
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Indians and the Civil War, visit www.Facebook.com/AmericanIndiansAndTheCivilWar.
To learn more about AIANTA, visit www.AIANTA.org.
To learn more about the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, visit www.bia.gov.
To learn more about the Bureau of
Indian Education, visit www.bie.gov.
To learn more about Eastern National,
visit www.eParks.com.
To learn more about the National Park
Service, visit www.nps.gov.
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