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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.
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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).
Map of the Costanoan languages and major villages. Over 50 villages and tribes of the Ohlone (also known as Costanoan) Native American people have been identified as existing in Northern California circa 1769 in the regions of the San Francisco Peninsula, Santa Clara Valley, East Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey Bay and Salinas Valley.
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 ...
Running Eagle was oldest among her siblings and was residing in Southern Alberta, Canada. [5] She was also known as "Brown Weasel Woman." She was born into the Piikáni Piegan Tribe of the Blackfeet Nation. [6] Running Eagle had three younger sisters and two brothers. [7] As a child, she preferred to play with boys rather than girls, and at age ...
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.
Taika Waititi. Chelsea Winstanley. Māori. (Polynesian) Jojo Rabbit. Nominated. Winstanley is the first Māori of Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi descent to be nominated for an Academy Award. First Indigenous people to be nominated for Best Picture. Husband-wife team.