December 23 - George Catlin - American painter who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West (born 1796)
He also made several contacts among the Native American tribes in the area, at one point negotiating an $800,000 settlement between the Creeks and other tribes and the federal government.
The American Indian Genocide Museum is a museum located in Houston, Texas that is dedicated to documenting the genocide committed against the American Indians.
Chapman was born in 1837 in Michigan, to white and Native American parents.
Tincup was one of the first Native Americans to play Major League Baseball.
Father and son collaborated on joint projects, for example during the 1710 tour of Native American chiefs to England.
The 'Hopi Red Dye' amaranth is rich in betacyanins and produces red flowers which the Hopi Amerindians used as the source of a deep red dye.
The Indians were a team based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe.
Madritsch, who is Native American, was raised by his father and has never known his mother.
Clarke moved to New Mexico in his early childhood and was raised in Indian territory, and studied civil engineering in Santa Fe at Brothers College.
All Native American children were given English names and were taught the English language.
After her divorce from Schlatter and later also from Weldon, she became committed to the cause of Native Americans, especially the Lakota Indians in the Dakota Territory.
Clara Blinn (1847–1868) was a white settler who, with her two-year-old son Willie, was captured by Indians in October 1868 in Colorado Territory during an attack on the wagon train in which she and her family were traveling.
In 1972, he published a second book, A Monument to a Black Man: The Biography of William Goyens, a study of the African American who served as an aide to Sam Houston and was a negotiator for Indian treaties.
Darrell Kipp (23 October 1944 - 21 November 2013) was a Native American author, historian, and educator.
Delphine Red Shirt (born 1957) is a Native American author and educator, who is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Clearwater has been nicknamed The Chief and sometimes wears Native American headdress.
Fossil evidence of Ekgmowechashala was discovered on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, an Oglala Sioux Native American reservation in South Dakota.
Europeans married and made unions with Africans and Native Americans.
The name of the organization is a combination of the Indonesian word referring to a music ensemble, ‘Gamelan,’ and English word referring to a Native American, community-fostering ritual, ‘Council’ (the same term used to refer commonly to a group of individuals providing advice and counsel).
The newlyweds shared a keen interest in preserving and recording Native American culture.
The site of the Grosse Point Lighthouse is the purported site where Father Jacques Marquette landed in 1674 during his trip down the west side of Lake Michigan to visit various Illinois Native American tribes.
Unlike Wolff however, Livermore became convinced that the American Indians were the lost tribes, and in 1832 she set out alone to evangelize them.
The tiny seeds are edible, and this plant was part of the Eastern Agricultural Complex of cultivated plants used in Pre-Columbian times by Native Americans.
Each year, between Ascension and Whitsun, a Western town is built here in which Western and Indian clubs recreate the atmosphere of the Wild West for a few days under authentic conditions.
The piece is based on several melodies and rhythms from various American Indian tribes; Busoni had received them from American ethnomusicologist Natalie Curtis Burlin.
The first inhabitants of the Jacksonville Beaches area were Native Americans.
After a brief expedition to fight Native Americans (Indians) and guerrillas from North Carolina in Cocke County, Tennessee, Colonels Brownlow and Palmer with about one thousand men of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry and 10th Ohio Cavalry held the army's right wing, watching for arrival of a Confederate force reportedly approaching East Tennessee from North Carolina.
Ethnicity: African American, Asian American, Chicano/Latino/Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander, Person of color
LaZar grew up in San Francisco, California and is of Mediterranean and Native American heritage.
Drake and several other cavalry officers led lengthy explorations through eastern Oregon, northern Nevada, and southwestern Idaho searching for Indian raiders.
He studied classical music in America and spent time living with Navajo Native Americans before attending drama school in London.
Johnny Moses is a Tulalip Native American master storyteller, oral historian, healer and spiritual leader.
He served as Associate Council Director of the NIC (October 1982 to 30 June 1990), where his responsibilities included Church and Society, Ethnic Minority Local Churches (Native American, Asian, Hispanic, and Black), and Spiritual formation.
During his early years in Dallas, Texas, Yohannan became an ordained clergyman and served as a pastor of a Native American Southern Baptist church for four years.
Grand Casinos' Native American casino holdings were spun off into a new company, Lakes Entertainment, and Berman was named CEO.
Aside from merchant seamen, members of the military, immigrants, Native Americans, other federal beneficiaries, and people affected by chronic and epidemic diseases found a source for health care in the PHS and its hospitals.
In the past, specimens exposed by severe rainstorms were found by Native Americans of the Sioux tribe.
Arizona, a state in the southwestern region of the United States of America, is known for its high population of Native Americans.
In The Native American Renaissance,Lincoln explores the significant increase in production of literary works by Native Americans in the years following the publication of N. Scott Momaday's novel House Made of Dawn, which garnered critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969.
At least one species within this genus, Ostrea lurida, has been recovered in archaeological excavations along the Central California coast of the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating it was a marine taxon exploited by the Native American Chumash people as a food source.
This species has been recovered in archaeological excavations along the Central California coast of the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating it was a marine species exploited by the Native American Chumash people.
In a similar manner as in Asia, Native Americans harvested freshwater pearls from lakes and rivers like the Ohio, Tennessee, and Mississippi, while others successfully retrieved marine pearls from the Caribbean and waters along the coasts of Central and South America.
In recent years, Native Americans and other groups have protested the use of Andrew Jackson as a representative because of injustices to native Americans at the hands of Jackson and his soldiers during the Seminole Wars as well as Jackson's years as President.
Joseph's Indian School is located in Chamberlain, South Dakota, United States, and serves about 200 American Indian children.
It became "Chief Plenty Bucks", set in the West and starring a capitalistic Native American chief.
Stephen Dow Beckham is a noted American historian known for his work with Native Americans and the American West, especially the Pacific Northwest and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Yellow Thunder Woman is a Native American ("Yellow Thunder Woman" being the English translation of her birth name, Wakinyan Zi Win), while her band mate Davey is a British expatriate from Great Cheverell, near Devizes, Wiltshire, formerly in The Davey Brothers with his brother Jesse.
Although based on Halévy's Jaguarita l'Indienne, the setting is shifted from Dutch Guyana to a Dutch settlement in North America under siege by Indians, led by their beautiful queen, Oanita.
By 1840, with the decline of the fur trade, Smith began kidnapping Native American children to sell as peons to Mexican haciendas.
Two warships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Etlah, derived from a Native American word meaning "White Lily".
Veterans Songs is the first studio album by the American Indian drum group Lakota Thunder.
Vi Hilbert (née Anderson, Lushootseed name: taqʷšəblu, July 24, 1918 – December 19, 2008) was a Native American tribal elder of the Upper Skagit, a tribe of the greater Puget Salish in Washington State, whose ancestors occupied the banks along the Skagit River, and was a conservationist of the Lushootseed language and culture.
Johnson was born in Canarsie, Brooklyn, one of five children of a part Native American father John Johnson, and an Italian-American mother.
He is known for his extensive recording of American Indian music between 1939 and 1952.
The album cover shows Lynn dressed in Native American clothing, out in the wilderness with her left hand over her head as if she is searching for something.
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It holds a bison trophy head, a collection of pottery from the La Luz Pottery Factory, and artifacts from prehistoric Native American tribes that were found in caves above Alamogordo.
As with the more thickly-settled Little Bay de Noc, the bay's name comes from the Noquet (or Noc) Native American people (thought to have been related to the Menominee of the Algonquian language group), who once lived along the shores.
Highway 338 follows what was once a stretch of the Great Indian Warpath, a trail used for centuries by Native Americans travelling up and down the Tennessee Valley.
This fertile valley lands would have been transversed by early Native American visitors, farmed by the regions first white settlers, and eventually part of the original purchase to establish the Cleveland Metroparks system in 1894.
The Native American tribe called the Kechemeche resided in what is now the southern portion of Cape May County, New Jersey.
Catherine Herrold Troeh (January 5, 1911 – June 28, 2007) was an American historian, artist, activist and advocate for Native American rights and culture, especially in the Pacific Northwest.
Contrary to popular belief, Wilson was not of Native American descent.
Dressed in a faux American Indian headdress, rimmed glasses, and a red jacket, Chief Zee has been attending Redskins games since 1978.
Activities offered include the Coconino High School Student Council, SkillsUSA, All Stars, Aztecca, Drama Club, the Coconino High School chapter of the National Honor Society, Native American Club, Rocketry Club and the Fabric Arts Club.
The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, known to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) as the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians of Oregon is a federally recognized Native American tribal government based in Canyonville, Oregon, United States.
Cranberry Creek Archeological District, also known as Cranberry Creek Mound Group, is an ancient American Indian burial mound site from circa AD 100–800 near New Miner, Wisconsin, United States.
Delores E. Churchill is a Native American artist of Haida descent.
An American Indian specialist, her research focused on the Salish and Makah peoples of western Washington State, with publications on ethnobotany, ethnohistory, and general ethnology.
They also wish themselves into a castle, only to learn it's being besieged, while a wish to meet real Red Indians ends with the children nearly being scalped.
The Five Moons are five Native American ballerinas from the U.S. state of Oklahoma who achieved international prominence during the 20th century.
Gentle Thunder, born Lisa Carpenter, is a Native American flautist of Cree heritage with three solo albums to date.
The ethnic makeup of the school is 35.9% White, non-Hispanic, 38.1% Hispanic, 11.7% African American, 10.7% Asian/Pacific Islander, and 1% Native American.
Indian Will was a well-known Native American who lived in a former settlement of the Shawnee Indians at the site of prevent day Cumberland, Maryland in the 18th century.
His father, a friend of civil rights leader Dr. Ralph Bunche, was a native of South Carolina, his mother has been described as Native American (Sioux).
He commonly portrays Native American characters such as his role on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Cloud Dancing and The Naked Indian spirit from Wayne's World 2.
Lipscomb was born April 9, 1895 to an ex-slave father from Alabama and a half Native American (Choctaw) mother.
The Nehalem River valley widens between Mist and Jewell, and was favored by the Native American tribes of the area for hunting; it was later favored by early European American settlers for agriculture.
It looks at various events happening throughout Indian Country from an Indian perspective and also endeavors to show some of the good that Native Americans and Indian Tribes are doing throughout their areas.
The Navajo AIDS Network (NAN) is a Chinle, Arizona-based HIV prevention and AIDS service organization for American Indians who reside within the Navajo Nation, located in western New Mexico and eastern Arizona.
He is also an expert on American Indian music, and on the music of Silvestre Revueltas.
Princess Winona (Princess We-Noh-Nah) is the central Native American character in a "Lover's Leap" romantic legend set at Maiden Rock on the Wisconsin side of Lake Pepin in the United States.
Such programs usually focus on targeting women and underrepresented minorities (e.g., African Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans and mainland Puerto Ricans).
He is most famous as the father of modern bow hunting, and for his close relationship with Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe and the last known American Indian to be raised largely isolated from Western culture.
The Chief was one of four Sioux Native Americans (four Ojibwe also attended) chosen to meet President James Monroe in 1824 in the nation's capital.
The chiefs of eight American Indian tribes, who died from Yellow fever while visiting Philadelphia in 1793 to meet with President George Washington.
The title of Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a history of Native Americans in the American West in the late nineteenth century, is taken from the final phrase of Benét's poem "American Names".
The project consisted of a rock opera based on the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the history of the Native North American peoples.
Tipton Schools counts 1,851 students in K-12, with 97% being Caucasian, and the remaining 3% either African-American, Hispanic, Native American, Indian, or multiracial.
Vera J. Francis is an American Indian educator, environmental activist, and community planner for the Passamaquoddy people.
The Wabaquasset were a band of Native Americans who formerly lived west of the Quinebaug River, in what is now Windham County, Connecticut.
According to Oregon Geographic Names, it names a Native American mythological being associated with the Columbia River.
Potawatomi Indians and settlers believed that the nearby White Rock natural spring had special medicinal powers, so White Rock Beverages started out as destination for vacationers and health seekers.