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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).
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Bowdash, Kootenai two-spirit warrior. Beth Brant (born 1941), Bay of Quinte Mohawk. Mary Brant, Mohawk leader. Mary Brave Bird (1953–2013), Brulé Lakota writer and activist [12] Bras Piqué, Natchez woman who tried to warn the French of her tribe's plans to attack them. Ignatia Broker (1919–1987), Ojibwa writer.
Lilo is a lonely young Native Hawaiian orphan girl who lives in the fictional Kokaua Town on Kaua'i with her older sister Nani Pelekai. She discovers, adopts, and makes friend with Stitch, a mischievous alien who she initially mistakes him for a dog. Nani is the older sister and legal guardian of Lilo Pelekai.
Cora Reynolds Anderson (1882–1950), first first Native American woman to secure a seat in a state legislature [10] Awashonks (fl. mid- to late 17th c.), chief of the Sakonett tribe [24] Lyda Conley (1874–1946), Wyandot activist and first Native American woman admitted to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court [25]
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.
This is a list of the most popular given names in South Korea, by birth year and gender for various years in which data is available.. Aside from newborns being given newly popular names, many adults change their names as well, some in order to cast off birth names they feel are old-fashioned.
Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief (her birth name) was born in Fairfax, Oklahoma, on January 24, 1925, to Alexander Joseph Tall Chief (1890–1959), a member of the Osage Nation, and his wife, Ruth (née Porter), of Scottish-Irish descent. [5][6] Porter had met Alexander Tall Chief, a widower, while visiting her sister, who was his mother's ...