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Dee Brown. Dee Brown authored the book 'Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee,' which made him famous.
Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus was sailing to find the Indes a.k.a 'The Orient.' He came to the Americas by mistake and called the people who lived there 'Indians.'
Nez Perce. The other name for the Nimipu Indians is 'Nez Perce,' given to them by the French.
Navajo. Before the white settlers came here to the states, the Navajos were referred to as 'Dine.'
True . Believe it or not, Tonto was played by a Shakespearean actor.
Little Beaver. The Red Ryder had an Indian boy named 'Little Beaver' as his sidekick. I made up Kicking Horse and Big Bear. The name Red Bull is the name of an energy drink.
Pontiac. Parkman wrote about Pontiac and how he 'was a savage.'
Pequots. Pretty darn gruesome if you ask me.
Rousseau. Rousseau often spoke of people who 'lived close to nature' and 'did natural kinds of things.' Thus, whites from Europe came to the Northeast in the 17th century and encountered such people (a.k.a Native Americans).
They lived underground. They built one-room homes underground and lived there. Basically, the average home was inhabited by the extended family rather than a husband, wife, and kids.
Horseback riding on trails. Among these four, only equestrian riding is not a part of the jurisdiction exemption. Only fishing, hunting, housing, and gambling are exceptions. This is known as 'Public Law 280.'
Kiowa. I read one of his books in my first year of college, called 'House Made of Dawn.'
Southeast. The Cherokee were located close to where the Muskogee Creek and the Clawba were in the Southeast. They were close to the modern day Carolinas and northern Georgia. The Cherokee were around between 1755 and 1838, when they were marched to Oklahoma on the infamous "Trail of Tears". It was also the largest of the five civilized tribes in the Southeast.
Eastern Woodland. They were located in modern day Michigan between the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. There is actually a zoo named after the Patowatomi, which is located in South Bend, Indiana. By 1695 they were living in Wisconsin, near Green Bay, because the French moved in. After the Iroquois were driven out of the southern Michigan area by the French, the Patawatomi moved back around the southern point of Lake Michigan and into Indiana. One group of the Patawatomi settled near the Jesuit Mission by the St. Joseph River.
Plains. The Sioux have many different tribes within the one tribe and they include: Mandan Lakota and the Dakota. The Sioux chief, Running Antelope, along with Sacagawea, is on the U.S. currency.
Northwest. The Nis-Qually are less known, but they were located on the narrow strip of the Northwest around where modern day Oregon and Washington are. They use the Lushootseed language to comunicate with each other.
Great Basin. The Shashone were located around where modern-day Utah is. They are also known as the Snake Nation. They lived in tepees and hunted buffalo.
Sub-Arctic. The Inuit people were Eskimos. The Labrador Inuits were located between the Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea. They had many different games including the ring and pin game, a game where a ring is attached to a cord, which is thrown into the air and must be speared by a spear that is attached to the other end of the cord.
Plateau. The Nez Perce were located in Idaho mainly. The Nez Perce were the largest ethnic group in the Columbia Plateau. In the 1700s they were quickly noticed as having good horsemanship.
West Coast. The Yokuts were one of the few Native American tribes in the California area (West Coast region). They have very notable pictographs and basketry.
Southwest. The *western* Apache were located in the Southwest, while the the Apache were located in the Plains. There was actually another two Apache tribes in the Southwest as well: the Chiricahua and the Jicarilla. The word 'Apache' most likly came from the Zuni word (the Spanish) meaning 'enemy'.
Eastern Woodland. In Indiana there are many counties that are named after Native Americans including Miami County. The Miami Native Americans of Indiana have a mission statement that the first part says: "The Miami People shall work together to maintain, preserve and promote Miami tradition, heritage, language and culture of the proud Miami Nation.
*Information collected from www.miamiindians.org, the Miami Indians of Indiana.
563. There are 563 federally recognized tribal governments in the United States.
Infectious diseases. Infectious diseases are thought to have killed over half of the Cherokees on the Trail of Tears.
Osage. Lewis and Clark made mention of the Great Osage tribe in 1802 during the expedition.
Apache. Later in life chief Geronimo embraced Christianity and encouraged his people to study it.
Blackfoot. The rapper Sole is also wife pf the rapper Ginuwine.
Florida. Although originally from Florida the Seminole now reside in Oklahoma.
Navajo Indian Reservation. The Navajo Indian Reservation is also refered to as Navajo Country, and was established in 1868. It is in northest Arizona and extends into New Mexico and Utah.
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