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The Greatest Indian was a poll sponsored by Reliance Mobile and conducted by Outlook magazine, in partnership with CNN-IBN and The History Channel. The poll was conducted from June to August 2012, with the winner, B. R. Ambedkar , announced on 11 August.
Also in Anadarko is the Southern Plains Indian Museum, which features highly-skilled arts and crafts of contemporary and historic artists from both the local Plains tribes, as well as other American Indians relocated to present-day Oklahoma in the 19th century, such as the Delaware, Caddo, Southeastern Woodlands tribes, and others. The museum ...
Faz Husain, first native of India to win elected office in Michigan (Democratic) Bobby Jindal, 55th governor of Louisiana (2008–2016) (Republican) Nimi McConigley, first Indian American women to serve in any American State legislature served in the Wyoming State Legislature from 1994 until 1996 (Republican)
To pay homage to the rich ancestry of Native Americans, it helps to know of current-day people who share in the heritage. With that in mind, we gathered this list of 20 famous Native Americans ...
Chief of Minneconjou teton lakota Indians, signed the treaty of fort Laramie in 1868. Father of Touch the Clouds and Spotted Elk, uncle to Crazy Horse: Captain Jack: c. 1837–1873 1860s–1870s Modoc: Mangas Coloradas: c. 1793–1863 1820s–1850s Apache: Cochise: c. 1805–1874 1860s–1870s Apache: Cornplanter: c. 1750s–1831 1816–1831 ...
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. Ethnologically, factors such as culture, history, language, religion, and familial kinships can influence Native American ...
David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre (1808–1851), Anglo-Indian politician held to be the first person of Indian descent to be elected in British Parliament. Sheth Ghoolam Hyder (1776–1823), born in Darbhanga, Bihar, professor of Persian at the East India Company College. One of the first Indians to teach in the UK.
Painting of Bimbache of El Hierro by Leonardo Torriani, 1592 The San are the oldest inhabitants of Southern Africa. Indigenous communities, peoples, and nations are those which have a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, and may consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories ...