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State Designated Tribal Statistical Areas are geographical areas the United States Census Bureau uses to track demographic data. These areas have a substantial concentration of members of tribes that are State recognized but not Federally recognized and do not have a reservation or off-reservation trust land. [14]
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 ...
This article is about the name for the traditional territory (the land) itself, rather than the name of the nation/tribe/people. The distinction between nation and land is like the French people versus the land of France , the Māori people versus the land of Aotearoa , or the Saami people versus the land of Sápmi (Saamiland).
A Havana Hopewell culture site, The Toolesboro Mound Group is a group of mounds on the north bank of the Iowa River near its discharge into the Mississippi. The mounds are owned and displayed to the public by the State Historical Society of Iowa. The mound group is located east of Wapello, Iowa, near the unincorporated community of Toolesboro.
Maps show NOAA's spring weather outlook across U.S. Much of the country is forecast to see warmer-than-average temperatures and drought conditions this spring, according to NOAA. Associated Press ...
The Pit River Tribe currently operates Pit River Casino, a Class III gaming facility located on 79 acres (320,000 m 2) in Burney, California. [citation needed] Today there are around 1,800 tribal members enrolled in contemporary Achumawi federally recognized tribes, [citation needed] that are as follows:
A map showing the extent of three major cultures within the American Southwest and Northern Mexico with modern borders to provide geographical context. The Pre-Columbian culture of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico evolved into three major archaeological culture areas, sometimes referred to as Oasisamerica.
Because of this reliance on farming, these tribes did not migrate like the more northern Eastern Woodlands tribes and instead stayed in one place, which resulted in them developing new social and political structures. [6] The Eastern Woodlands tribes located further north (Algonquian-speaking people) relied heavily on hunting to acquire food. [4]