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Kahnawake surnames. The Mohawk Nation reserve of Kahnawake, south of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, includes residents with surnames of Mohawk, French, Scots and English ancestry, reflecting its multicultural history. This included the adoption of European children into the community, as well as intermarriage with local colonial settlers over the ...
Y. Yazzie. Yellow Robe. Youngblood (surname) Categories: Native American culture. Surnames of North American origin.
Okeechobee County – from the Hitchiti words oki (water) and chobi (big), a reference to Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida. Osceola County – named after Osceola, the Native American leader who led the Second Seminole War. Sarasota County. Seminole County – named after the Seminole Native American tribe.
Karonghyontye or Captain David Hill (1745–1790), Mohawk leader during the American Revolutionary War. E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake (1861–1913), poet, author, and public speaker from the Six Nations Reserve of the Grand River. George Henry Martin Johnson (1816–1884), Mohawk chief and interpreter.
Southern Paiutes, [1] Chemehuevis, Kawaiisu. Ute (/ ˈjuːt /) are the indigenous, or Native American people, of the Ute tribe and culture among the Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin. They had lived in sovereignty for several hundred years in the regions of present-day Utah and Colorado. In addition to their ancestral lands within Colorado ...
The Wabanaki Confederacy (Wabenaki, Wobanaki, translated to "People of the Dawn" or "Easterner"; also: Wabanakia, "Dawnland" [1]) is a North American First Nations and Native American confederation of five principal Eastern Algonquian nations: the Abenaki of St. Francis, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Passamaquoddy (Peskotomahkati) and Penobscot.
The Native American name controversy is an ongoing discussion about the changing terminology used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas to describe themselves, as well as how they prefer to be referred to by others. Preferred terms vary primarily by region and age. As Indigenous peoples and communities are diverse, there is no consensus on ...
The Cheyenne (/ ʃ aɪ ˈ æ n / shy-AN) are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains.The Cheyenne comprise two Native American tribes, the Só'taeo'o or Só'taétaneo'o (more commonly spelled as Suhtai or Sutaio) and the Tsétsêhéstâhese (also spelled Tsitsistas, [t͡sɪt͡shɪstʰɑs] [3]); the tribes merged in the early 19th century.