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  2. Tlaxcaltec - Wikipedia

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    Lienzo de Tlaxcala image depicting Tlaxcaltec soldiers leading a Spanish soldier to Chalco.. Due to their century-long rivalry with the Aztecs, the Tlaxcaltecs allied with Hernán Cortés and his fellow Spanish conquistadors and were instrumental in the invasion of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire, helping the Spanish reach the Valley of Anahuac and providing a key contingent of the ...

  3. List of First Nations peoples in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The native peoples of the Pacific coast also make totem poles, a trait attributed to other tribes as well. In 2000 a land claim was settled between the Nisga'a people of British Columbia and the provincial government, resulting in the return of over 2,000 square kilometres of land to the Nisga'a.

  4. List of Indian reserves in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada First Nation(s) Ethnic/national group Tribal council Treaty Area Population [274] Notes ha acre 2016 2011 % difference Carcross 4 [275] Carcross/Tagish: Tlingit / Tagish — n/a: 64.8 160.1: 35: 53-34.0%: Listed by Statistics Canada as self-government Haines Junction [276] Aishihik / Champagne and Aishihik ...

  5. Indigenous peoples in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Notwithstanding Canada's location within the Americas, the term Native American is hardly ever used in Canada, in order to avoid any confusion due to the ambiguous meaning of the word "American". Therefore, the term is typically used only in reference to the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of the present-day United States . [ 33 ]

  6. Indigenous mapping - Wikipedia

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    An example of an Indigenous map is a 2.6-meter long Ojibwe scroll and story detailing the 14th-15th century emigration of the Ojibwe people. It tracks the tribe's journey their original territory in the Zhiiwitaagani-gichigami (Atlantic Ocean) to the Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin (Great Lakes).

  7. List of traditional territories of the Indigenous peoples of ...

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    2) In a wider sense, the name Dene encompasses all of the Northern Athabaskan peoples of Canada and Alaska. The name "Denendeh", though now confined to the NWT, could conceivably be employed as a supra-national name for all the Northern Athabaskan traditional territories as a whole, in a similar way that "Anishinaabewaki" transcends modern ...

  8. Tlaxcala (Nahua state) - Wikipedia

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    Tlaxcala (Classical Nahuatl: Tlaxcallān [t͡ɬaʃˈkalːaːn̥] ⓘ, 'place of maize tortillas') was a pre-Columbian city and state in central Mexico.. During the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, the Tlaxcaltecs allied with the Spanish Empire against their hated enemies, the Aztecs, supplying a large contingent for and sometimes most of the Spanish-led army that eventually destroyed the ...

  9. Tlaxcala - Wikipedia

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    Tlaxcala (UK: / t l ə ˈ s k ɑː l ə, t l æ ˈ-/ tlə-SKAH-lə, tla-, US: / t l ɑː ˈ-/ tlah-; Spanish: [tla(ɣ)sˈkala] ⓘ; from Nahuatl languages: Tlaxcallān [t͡ɬaʃˈkalːaːn̥] ⓘ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tlaxcala (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Tlaxcala), is one of the 32 federal entities that comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.