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Selma Walker (December 14, 1925 – January 3, 1997) was an American social worker and the founder and director of the Native American Center of Columbus, Ohio.She was a Dakota of Santee Dakota and Sisseton Dakota ancestry, and a "tribal member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota", according to the Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio. [1]
Her funeral attracted the major newspapers of the country and was made a front-page news. Four years later, two more children were interred, and the Dayton Democrat reported that the " attendance was quite large, tent-dwellers having come from all parts of the country – from New York to Mississippi – to be present at the funeral.
Columbus police are looking for two male suspects in connection with the death of a mother who attempted to stop her car from being stolen with her 6-year-old son inside at a Southeast Side ...
Catawba Island - Name of a Siouan speaking tribe from North Carolina who participated in many wars and conflicts, some of which being in Ohio. [24] Chickasaw - name of a tribe from Kentucky and Tennessee. Chillicothe - Shawnee. Chalakatha, one of the Shawnee bands. [25] Chippewa Lake; Choctaw Lake - name of a tribe from Mississippi. Conneaut
Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was convicted of two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a June 26, 1975, shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Joseph Brant, a Mohawk, depicted in a portrait by Charles Bird King, circa 1835 Three Lenape people, depicted in a painting by George Catlin in the 1860s. Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands include Native American tribes and First Nation bands residing in or originating from a cultural area encompassing the northeastern and Midwest United States and southeastern Canada. [1]
Logan the Orator (c. 1723 – 1780) was a Cayuga orator and war leader born of one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.After his 1760s move to the Ohio Country, he became affiliated with the Mingo, a tribe formed from Seneca, Cayuga, Lenape and other remnant peoples.
The Eastern Woodlands is a cultural area of the Indigenous people of North America.The Eastern Woodlands extended roughly from the Atlantic Ocean to the eastern Great Plains, and from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico, which is now part of the Eastern United States and Canada. [1]