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Pages in category "Native American tribes in Pennsylvania" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
t. e. The Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) area has one of the largest Indian American populations in the United States, comprising over 235,000 individuals, or roughly 3% of the metro area's total population. [2] First settling in the area as doctors, engineers, and skilled professionals in the medical field, the community has expanded to include ...
Erie people. The Erie people were an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands historically living on the south shore of Lake Erie. An Iroquoian-speaking tribe, they lived in what is now western New York, northwestern Pennsylvania, and northern Ohio before 1658. [2] Their nation was almost exterminated in the mid- 17th century by five ...
The Monongahela culture were an Iroquoian Native American cultural manifestation of Late Woodland peoples from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day Western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia. [1] The culture was named by Mary Butler in 1939 for the Monongahela River, whose valley contains the majority of this culture's sites.
This is a list of Native American archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania.. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites. [1]
Shamokin (/ ʃəˈmoʊkɪn /; Saponi Algonquian Schahamokink: "place of crawfish") (Lenape: Shahëmokink [1]) was a multi-ethnic Native American trading village on the Susquehanna River, located partially within the limits of the modern cities of Sunbury and Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania. It should not be confused with present-day Shamokin ...
The Museum of Indian Culture is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization [1] and educational center in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1980, the center is dedicated to presenting, preserving, and perpetuating the history of the Lenape and other Northeastern Woodland Indian cultures. [2] The Museum of Indian Culture is located in the Lehigh ...
As Indians started to get more settled in Philadelphia, they quickly started to move from the central parts of the city to outlying neighborhoods and suburbs such as Northeast Philadelphia, [6] Montgomery County, and Bucks County, with the small suburb of Millbourne becoming the first majority-Indian town in the United States by 2000. [7]