Values
There was little emphasis on material objects. In fact, it was considered more appropriate to purge yourself of all of your material items then it was to collect them. When a person died, the less they left behind,the better they were remembered. All their belongings, everything, was burned with them. In this way, the people did not have to deal with humanity’s four problems, which include Ignorance, Greed, Arrogance, and Jealousy.
Native Indian population
The native American population constitutes about 1% of the total American population. There were thousands of Native American tribes before invasion by the Europeans . Now there are about 600. They are nearly extinct today. Mexico and Canada natives would not have to jump any borders to visit their homelands and family.
Citizenship
All native americans in usa are citizens since 1924. 80% live of the native americans do not live in reservations but in mostly urban areas like Chicago and New York City etc. As sovereign nations, state laws do not apply on the reservations and they fall under federal jurisdiction.
Native American stories
Dibaajimowinan (Stories)
http://www.umich.edu/~ojibwe/stories/
The site has stories in Anishinaabemowin (Chippewa/Ojibwa Language)
All stories can be downloaded as MP3 files.
This download is not in MP3
Narratives
http://imp.lss.wisc.edu/~jrvalent/ais301/Stories/Stories.html
This is in Oji-Cree. A download is available at the Legends Site
http://legends.knet.on.ca/