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Pages in category "Native American trails in the United States" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Pre-Columbian culture of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico evolved into three major archaeological culture areas, sometimes referred to as Oasisamerica. The Ancestral Pueblo peoples, or Anasazi, culture was centered around the present-day Four Corners area.
Many places throughout the United States take their names from the languages of the indigenous Native American/American Indian tribes. The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions whose names are derived from these languages.
Native American Place Names of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Hartford Courant (editors?) (1999). "Ask the Courant: Where are the beginnings of four shoreline rivers, the Hammonasset, Menunketesuck, Patchogue and Indian rivers, and how did they come by their names?", Huden, John C. (1962).
For the purpose of this list, "nation" refers to the historic, whole national identities, rather than to the fragmented "reservation nations" or "bands". The whole nations are what John Beaucage, Grand Council Chief of the Anishinabek Nation, refers to as "true nations" in contrast with the fragmented "First Nations":
Intended to forcibly assimilate Arizona Native children into American culture, school policies prohibited the use of native languages and clothing and separated children from the same tribe. [20] Although the curriculum underwent heavy reform during the 1930s at the behest of reformist Bureau of Indian Affairs chief John Collier , the school ...
The part of the Great Trail used by Colonial American troops during Pontiac's Rebellion has been improved as U.S. Route 23. [1] As with the Native Americans' burning underbrush to clear land for cultivating crops and creating deer fields, the Great Trail shows that the indigenous inhabitants traveled widely on the land, altering it to serve ...
For centuries the Kittanning Path, like the similar Chief Nemacolin's Trail to the south, was the overland route through very tough country [d] for Native American peoples. They included Iroquoian-speaking tribes, such as the Erie , Susquehannock , and the Five Nations of the Iroquois confederacy, as well as the Algonquian-speaking Lenape ...