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The Gros Ventre were reported living in two north–south tribal groups – the so-called Fall Indians (Canadian or northern group, Hahá-tonwan) of 260 tipis (2,500 population) traded with the North West Company on the Upper Saskatchewan River [clarification needed] and roamed between the Missouri and Bow River, and the so-called Staetan tribe ...
In 1955, additional BIA relocation offices in Cleveland, Dallas, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, St. Louis, the San Francisco Bay area, San Jose, Seattle, and Tulsa were added. Relocation to cities, where more jobs were available, was expected to reduce poverty among Native Americans, who tended to live on isolated, rural reservations. [citation ...
The Indian Relocation Act of 1956 changed federal policy toward American Indians from reservations toward relocations. The Bureau of Indian Affairs chose Cleveland as one of 8 destination cities, dramatically increasing the Native population in following decades. [15] By 1990, the population of American Indians in Cleveland reached 2,706. [15]
Racism, unemployment, drugs and gangs were common problems which Indian social service organizations, such as the Little Earth housing complex in Minneapolis, have attempted to address. [ 139 ] As of the 2020 census , the largest self-identified Native American group not combined with another race is Aztec , numbering 378,122 individuals.
The Indian removal was the United States government's policy of ethnic cleansing through the forced displacement of self-governing tribes of American Indians from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River—specifically, to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma), which ...
After the Civil War, Texas being a Confederate state, Union forces occupied Texas, and in 1867 as many as 135 Tonkawa were escorted back north from Austin to Jacksboro, Texas by the Indian agent for the United States. [21] [22] [23] That same year the Tonkawa were then resettled on a reservation near Fort Griffin in Shackelford County. [24]
Historically, the Coeur d'Alene lived in what would become the Panhandle region of Idaho and neighboring areas of what is today eastern Washington and western Montana, occupying an area of more than 3.5 million acres (14,164 km 2) of grass-covered hills, camas-prairie, forested mountains, lakes, marshes, and river habitat.
A 1772 engraving of a man of the Odawa (Ottawa) tribe.. Cobmoosa (c. 1768 - 1866), [a] or Weebmossa meaning "Great Walker", [3] [b] was an Odawa leader [6] [7] who lived in a Native American village at the mouth of the Flat River at the present-day city of Lowell, Michigan until 1858.