Yucca is often seen as a symbol of protection and ... Corn, or maize, is central to many Native American cultures, ...

In Celtic culture, the dragon was a symbol of fertility, rather than Western ... horses are revered in Asia and Native American cultures. Heracles, also known as Hercules, was the son of Zeus ...

A dealer labeled a pair of effigies as fertility figures from 200 B.C ... may suggest they were taken from funerary sites, which Native Americans in the Four Corners find particularly disturbing.

In 1937, Phoenix was a small city isolated in the middle of the Arizona desert with a population of less than 50,000 people who, like the rest of the nation, were struggling to recover from the ...

SACRAMENTO — A new Native American monument was unveiled in Sacramento's Capitol Park. A symbol of indigenous history, the statue of Miwok leader and preservationist William J. Franklin Sr.

The group seized upon a phenomenon in the counterculture, which at the time was co-opting elements of Native identity as a rejection of mainstream American values. “In promoting this symbol ...