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  2. History of Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Thousands of California Native Americans, including women and children, are documented to have been killed by non-Native Americans in this period. The dispossession and murder of California Native Americans was aided by institutions of the state of California, which encouraged indigenous peoples to be killed with impunity.

  3. Genetic history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Schematic illustration of maternal (mtDNA) gene-flow in and out of Beringia, from 25,000 years ago to present. The genetic history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is divided into two distinct periods: the initial peopling of the Americas from about 20,000 to 14,000 years ago (20–14 kya), [1] and European contact, after about 500 years ago.

  4. Kahnawake surnames - Wikipedia

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    The origins of some of Kahnawake's European family names were first published by Father Forbes in 1899. [2] Below is detailed history of Kahnawake's most common surnames of European / North American origin. Beauvais: the first Beauvais was André Karhaton, who married Marie-Anne Kahenratas before 1743. He was a young man from the Beauvais ...

  5. List of place names of Native American origin in the United ...

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    The origin of the name is not definitely known. Unidilla - An Iroquois word meaning "place of meeting." Named after Unadilla, New York. Venango - An eastern Native American name in reference to a figure found on a tree, carved by the Erie.

  6. Native American name controversy - Wikipedia

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    In 1956, British writer Aldous Huxley wrote to thank a correspondent for "your most interesting letter about the Native American churchmen". [11] The use of Native American or native American to refer to Indigenous peoples who live in the Americas came into widespread, common use during the civil rights era of the 1960s and 1970s. This term was ...

  7. Native American women in Colonial America - Wikipedia

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    Native American woman at work. Life in society varies from tribe to tribe and region to region, but some general perspectives of women include that they "value being mothers and rearing healthy families; spiritually, they are considered to be extensions of the Spirit Mother and continuators of their people; socially, they serve as transmitters of cultural knowledge and caretakers of children ...

  8. Esselen - Wikipedia

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    [38] Until western contact, the native people lived in small villages of between 30 and 100 people. [37] In 1786, there were 740 native men, women and children living in the village next to the Mission. [39] The priests were ignorant of the cultural differences between the tribes and forced the Rumsen and Esselen Indians to live together.

  9. Mountain Wolf Woman - Wikipedia

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    In 1958, she gave her consent to share her story with Nancy Oestreich Lurie and translated in consultation with Frances Thundercloud Wentz. [5] [6] At the time of the interviews for the book, she had eight children, 39 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren. Mountain Wolf Woman was then an early full-length autobiography of an American ...