WebAfter the Indian Wars, Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt was assigned to supervise Native prisoners of war at Fort Marion which was located in St. Augustine, Florida. The United States Army sent seventy-two warriors from the Cheyenne, Kiowa, Comanche and Caddo nations, to exile in St. Augustine, Florida.They were used as hostages to encourage their …

WebAlabama – named for the Alibamu, a tribe whose name derives from a Choctaw phrase meaning "thicket-clearers" or "plant-cutters" (from albah, "(medicinal) plants", and amo, "to clear").; Alaska – from the Aleut phrase alaxsxaq, meaning "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed").; Arizona – disputed origin; likely from the O'odham phrase …

WebNative Americans of Texas and the Southern Plains, the Caddo Indians were farming people known for their pottery art. Cahtos ... A Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest, the Chinook Indians were well-known as expert traders. Chippewas Also known as the Ojibway, Ojibwe, or Ojibwe, the Chippewa tribe are one of the largest ...

WebOur site is designed to present information about American Indian tribes and their languages contextually--language by language and tribe by tribe. These are diverse nations deserving of individual attention, and it can be very difficult to make accurate generalizations about Native American tribes as a group.

WebNative American jewelry refers to items of personal adornment, whether for personal use, sale or as art; examples of which include necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and pins, as well as ketohs, wampum, and labrets, made by one of the Indigenous peoples of the United States.Native American jewelry normally reflects the cultural diversity and history of its …

WebThe fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian: eight come from Algonquian languages, seven from Siouan languages (one of those by way of …

WebThe indigenous people of North America, also known as Native Americans or American Indians, are the first inhabitants of what is now known as the United States.The ancestors of today’s living Native Americans are believed to have settled on the land about 15,000 years ago. The term excludes Native Hawaiians and some Alaskan Natives.

WebThe Wyandot people, or Wyandotte and Waⁿdát, are an Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands.The Wyandot are Iroquoian Indigenous peoples of North America who emerged as a confederacy of tribes around the north shore of Lake Ontario with their original homeland extending to Georgian Bay of Lake Huron and Lake Simcoe in Ontario, …

WebThis is a list of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States of America.There are also federally recognized Alaska Native tribes.As of 19 February 2020, 574 Indian tribes were legally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the United States. Of these, 231 are located in Alaska. . Description. Flags of Wisconsin tribes in the …

WebIn the following picture Coyote attempts to get persimmons from Opossum in traditional native American Caddo mythology. The coyote symbol represents the the prairie wolf and is small and cowardly, the least imposing of the wolf like animals. In Native American myths and legends the contemptible coyote symbolizes selfishness, deceit and greed.