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unusual facts about Native American tribe



Thomas Jarvis

Thomas Jarvis bought a piece of land located between the Perquimans River and Carolina Sound (in this time known as the Albemarle country), through a purchase made at a Native American tribe.


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Collinsville, Illinois

Collinsville High School, whose teams are stylized as the Kahoks (named for a fictional Native American tribe), have won several Illinois State Championships, in 1961, 1965 (basketball), 1980 (baseball), 1981, 1986, 1991, 1992 (soccer), and 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 (Dance Team).

Cow Creek

Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, a Native American tribe from the Cow Creek area of Oregon

Eolo

John Stedham, also known as Eolo, chief of the Muscogee Native American tribe

Machapunga

The Machapunga were a small Native American tribe of the Algonquian language family, one of a number in the territory of North Carolina.

Olive Oatman

Olive Oatman (1837 – March 20, 1903) was a woman from Illinois whose family was killed in 1851 when she was fourteen in today's Arizona by a Native American tribe, possibly the Tolkepayas (Western Yavapai), who captured and enslaved her and her sister and later sold them to the Mohave people.

Panka

Páⁿka, the name the Ponca, a Native American tribe of the Siouan-language group, call themselves

Piqua

Pekowi, a band of the Shawnee Native American tribe and the origin of the word "Piqua"

Shoalwater

Shoalwater Bay Tribe, a Native American tribe in western Washington state

Tenino

Tenino people, a Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest, also known as the Warm Springs bands

Turtle Mountain

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a Native American tribe of Ojibwa and Métis peoples

Una Tribe of Mixed-Bloods

The tribes name has several meanings and derivatives; Una is Spanish, meaning the one, and so Una Tribe of Mixed-Bloods stands for not only United Native American Tribe of Mixed-Bloods, but also means the one tribe of mixed-bloods.

Virginia Ragsdale

Jamestown was raided by a native-American tribe in 1644 led by the uncle of Pocahontas, during which Godfrey and his wife were killed, but their infant son, Godfrey, Jr., survived.

Wagnon v. Prairie Band Potawatomi Indians

The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is a federally recognized Indian (Native American) tribe with a reservation in Jackson County, Kansas.

Wateree

Wateree people, a Native American tribe in the interior of the present-day Carolinas, USA

Wicomico

The Wicocomico or Wicomico people, an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe, part of whom lived in the Tidewater region of Virginia