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Pages in category "Native American tribes in New Hampshire" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Pages in category "New Hampshire placenames of Native American origin" The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Native American tribes in New Hampshire (2 C, 4 P) ... List of place names of Native American origin in New England; S. Siege of Pemaquid (1696)
The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...
30 New Hampshire. 31 New Jersey. 32 New Mexico. 33 New York. 34 North Carolina. ... the Native American tribe is a fundamental unit of sovereign tribal government.
The region of New England in the United States has numerous place names derived from the indigenous peoples of the area. New England is in the Northeastern United States, and comprises six states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Listed are well-known names of towns, significant bodies of water, and ...
New Hampshire has the New Hampshire State Commission on Native American Affairs [26] but no state-recognized tribes. [27] Several organizations that self-identify as Native American tribes who identify as being Cowasuck are active in Vermont and New Hampshire; however, their claims to Abenaki ancestry are disputed. [28]
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]