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Joseph Brant, a Mohawk, depicted in a portrait by Charles Bird King, circa 1835 Three Lenape people, depicted in a painting by George Catlin in the 1860s. Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands include Native American tribes and First Nation bands residing in or originating from a cultural area encompassing the northeastern and Midwest United States and southeastern Canada. [1]
Nanticoke River Delaware Indians. The Nanticoke people are a Native American Algonquian people, whose traditional homelands are in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware.Today they live in the Northeastern United States and Canada, especially Delaware; in Ontario; and in Oklahoma.
' people who are building the longhouse ') are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America. They were known by the French during the colonial years as the Iroquois League , and later as the Iroquois Confederacy , while the English simply called them the "Five Nations".
Sachems / ˈ s eɪ tʃ ə m z / and sagamores / ˈ s æ ɡ ə m ɔːr z / are paramount chiefs among the Algonquians or other Native American tribes of northeastern North America, including the Iroquois. The two words are anglicizations of cognate terms (c. 1622) from different Eastern Algonquian languages.
In addition, Native Americans did not buy and sell captives in the pre-colonial era, although they sometimes exchanged captives with other tribes in peace gestures or in exchange for their own members. [34] The conditions of enslaved or hostage Native Americans varied among the tribes.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. Indigenous peoples of the United States This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (October 2024) Ethnic group Native Americans ...
Native American, a 1992 album by Tony Rice; The Native Americans, a 1994 American documentary series "Native Americans", a 1972 composition by Ornette Coleman from Skies of America "Native American", a 1987 song by Little Steven from Freedom – No Compromise; Native American, or Sons of Beaches, a 1995 album by The Bellamy Brothers
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.