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Republican. 8th Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, 2001–2003. Ross Swimmer. 1943–. Cherokee Nation. Republican. 4th Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, 1985–1989. Special Trustee for American Indians at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Larry Echo Hawk.
There were four leading chiefs of the Seminole, a Native American tribe that formed in what was then Spanish Florida in the present-day United States.They were leaders between the time the tribe organized in the mid-18th century until Micanopy and many Seminole were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s following the Second Seminole War.
At the start of the 117th Congress on January 3, 2021, five Native Americans were serving in the House, the largest Native delegation in history: Cole, Mullin, Haaland and Davids were all reelected in 2020, with Republican Yvette Herrell of New Mexico elected for the first time in 2020. The number dropped back down to four on March 16, 2021 ...
In the eighteenth century, when the people were primarily organized by clans and towns, they would appoint a leader for negotiations with the Europeans. They called him Uku, or "First Beloved Man". The title of "Principal Chief" was created in 1794, when the Cherokee began to formalize a more centralized political structure.
Reservation lands in the contiguous United States as of 2019. Tribal sovereignty in the United States is the concept of the inherent authority of Indigenous tribes to govern themselves within the borders of the United States. The U.S. federal government recognized American Indian tribes as independent nations and came to policy agreements with ...
Not to be confused with the American Identity Movement, also called AIM, a White Nationalist political movement run by Patrick Casey. The American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian grassroots movement which was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1968, [1] initially centered in urban areas in order to address systemic issues of ...
Shane Jett, Cherokee Nation, member of the Oklahoma Senate from the 17th district. Myron Lizer, Navajo / Comanche, Vice President of the Navajo Nation. Byron Mallott (Tlingit), former Lieutenant Governor of Alaska. Green McCurtain Choctaw Nation chief, Vice President of the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention.
The most common of the modern terms to refer to Indigenous peoples of the United States are Indians, American Indians, and Native Americans. Up to the early to mid 18th century, the term Americans was not applied to people of European heritage in North America. Instead it was equivalent to the term Indians.