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The Bureau of Indian Affairs defines Native American as having American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry. Legally, being Native American is defined as being enrolled in a federally recognized tribe or Alaskan village. These entities establish their own membership rules, and they vary. Each must be understood independently.
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Hodge, Frederick Webb, ed. "Potawatomi" Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30. GPO: 1910.) Kubiak, William J.; Great Lakes Indians; A Pictorial Guide; Baker Book House Company, 1970; Swanton, John R. "Michigan" The Indian Tribes of North America. (Smithsonian Institution ...
Pages in category "Surnames of Native American origin" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Native American woman at work. Life in society varies from tribe to tribe and region to region, but some general perspectives of women include that they "value being mothers and rearing healthy families; spiritually, they are considered to be extensions of the Spirit Mother and continuators of their people; socially, they serve as transmitters of cultural knowledge and caretakers of children ...
Pages in category "Surnames of Indian origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,073 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Odia names follow the First name – Middle name – Surname or First name – Surname pattern. Odia surnames come from caste based on human occupation. For example, the common surnames Kar, Mohapatra, and Dash (as opposed to Das) are Brahmin surnames. Similarly, Mishra, Nanda, Rath, Satpathy, Panda, Panigrahi, and Tripathy are all Brahmin ...
Nimi McConigley, first Indian American women to serve in any American State legislature served in the Wyoming State Legislature from 1994 until 1996 (Republican) Aruna Miller, 10th Lt. Governor of Maryland and the first South Asian woman elected lieutenant governor in the United States, [27] (Democratic)