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Little Turtle (Miami-Illinois: Mihšihkinaahkwa) (c. 1747 — July 14, 1812) was a Sagamore (chief) of the Miami people, who became one of the most famous Native American military leaders. Historian Wiley Sword calls him "perhaps the most capable Indian leader then in the Northwest Territory," [ 3 ] although he later signed several treaties ...
Sequoyah (/ səˈkwɔɪə / sə-QUOY-yə; Cherokee: ᏍᏏᏉᏯ, Ssiquoya, [ a ] or ᏎᏉᏯ, Sequoya, [ b ]pronounced [seɡʷoja]; c. 1770 – August 1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation. In 1821, Sequoyah completed his Cherokee syllabary, enabling reading and ...
An animated television series that aired on Fox, based on the Peter Pan story by J. M. Barrie. The younger brother of Tiger Lily and the son of Great Big Little Panther; the prince of the Native American tribe. Named after the crack passenger train in the Santa Fe Railroad. A Native American trickster spirit.
The Taíno ("Taíno" means "peace", [2] were peaceful seafaring people and distant relatives of the Arawak people of South America. [3][1] Taíno society was divided into two classes: Nitaino (nobles) and the Naboria (commoners). Both were governed by chiefs known as caciques, who were the maximum authority in a Yucayeque (village).
When our son was born a few years later, we drilled Indian baby boy names the same way. This time around, I knew to focus on the shorter, phonetically spelled names. To really hit it home for my ...
American Eagle (Navajo) Black Crow (Navajo) Centurious of the Firm (Amerind) Cusick (Tuscarora), Timespirits (Epic) Crusader-X, the Earth-2122 version of Captain Britain is a Native American of unspecified origin. Danielle Moonstar (Cheyenne, member of New Mutants, X-Force)
This is a list of English language words borrowed from Indigenous languages of the Americas, either directly or through intermediate European languages such as Spanish or French. It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from Indigenous languages. Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common ...
Original Nez Perce territory (green) and the reduced reservation of 1863 (brown) Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (or hinmatóowyalahtq̓it in Americanist orthography; March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904), popularly known as Chief Joseph, Young Joseph, or Joseph the Younger, was a leader of the wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest ...