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The location of the State of Colorado in the United States of America. The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions of Colorado whose names are derived from Native American languages.
American Indian reservations in Colorado (4 P) U. Ute (ethnic group) (5 C, 30 P) ... Ute people This page was last edited on 21 October 2022, at 12:23 (UTC). ...
Chillicothe – from Shawnee Chala·ka·tha, referring to members of one of the five divisions of the Shawnee people: Chalaka (name of the Shawnee group, of unknown meaning) + -tha 'person'; [67] the present Chillicothe is the most recent of seven places in Ohio that have held that name, because it was applied to the main town wherever the ...
Starting more than 10,000 years ago, Paleo-Indians (11,500 to 7,500 years ago) camped in the present-day Cañon City area in Fremont County. [1] [2]: 30 Evidence of Paleo-Indians habitation includes fire pits, animal bones, and stone tools, generally projectile points used in hunting. [1]
The resort features a 200-room hotel, a 10,000 square feet (930 m 2) bingo hall, an indoor water park, movie theater, video arcade, marina, and concert facilities. [7] The Colorado River Indian Tribe Museum and Gift Shop is in Parker, Arizona, [8] and has displays of historical and contemporary artworks, especially ceramics, made by tribal members.
Paleo-Indian period – the first people who entered, and subsequently inhabited, the Americas during the final glacial episodes of the late Pleistocene period.Evidence suggests big-game hunters crossed the Bering Strait from Asia into North America over a land and ice bridge (), that existed between 45,000 BCE – 12,000 BCE, [1] following herds of large herbivores far into Alaska.
Chief Ouray and Chipeta. Ancestral Puebloans — A diverse group of peoples that lived in the valleys and mesas of the Colorado Plateau; Apache Nation — An Athabaskan-speaking nation that lived in the Great Plains in the 18th century, then migrated southward to Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, leaving a void on the plains that was filled by the Arapaho and Cheyenne from the east.
This list of prehistoric sites in the U.S. State of Colorado includes historical and archaeological sites of humans from their earliest times in Colorado to just before the Colorado historic period, which ranges from about 12,000 BC to AD 19th century. The Period is defined by the culture enjoyed at the time, from the earliest hunter-gatherers ...