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39 unusual facts about Native Americans in the United States


Albert Pike

He also made several contacts among the Native American tribes in the area, at one point negotiating an $800,000 settlement between the Creeks and other tribes and the federal government.

Ben Tincup

Tincup was one of the first Native Americans to play Major League Baseball.

Bernard Lens II

Father and son collaborated on joint projects, for example during the 1710 tour of Native American chiefs to England.

Betalain

The 'Hopi Red Dye' amaranth is rich in betacyanins and produces red flowers which the Hopi Amerindians used as the source of a deep red dye.

Bill Winneshiek

The Indians were a team based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe.

Catherine Troeh

Catherine Herrold Troeh (January 5, 1911 – June 28, 2007) was an American historian, artist, activist and advocate for Native American rights and culture, especially in the Pacific Northwest.

Chakotay

As a boy, he often rebelled against his Native American upbringing in his father Kolopak's tribe (unnamed within Star Trek's canon), with its sometimes strict spiritual and cultural traditions.

Clara Blinn

Clara Blinn (1847–1868) was a white settler who, with her two-year-old son Willie, was captured by Indians in October 1868 in Colorado Territory during an attack on the wagon train in which she and her family were traveling.

D. J. Conway

Born in Hood River, Oregon to a family of Irish, North Germanic, and Native North American descent, she has been studying the occult and Pagan religion for over thirty years.

Delphine Red Shirt

Delphine Red Shirt (born 1957) is a Native American author and educator, who is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation.

Eddy Clearwater

Clearwater has been nicknamed The Chief and sometimes wears Native American headdress.

Ethnic minorities in the US armed forces during World War II

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European colonization of the Southern United States

Europeans married and made unions with Africans and Native Americans.

Hordeum pusillum

The tiny seeds are edible, and this plant was part of the Eastern Agricultural Complex of cultivated plants used in Pre-Columbian times by Native Americans.

Indian Fantasy

The piece is based on several melodies and rhythms from various American Indian tribes; Busoni had received them from American ethnomusicologist Natalie Curtis Burlin.

Jacksonville Beaches

The first inhabitants of the Jacksonville Beaches area were Native Americans.

James Armsey

Directed by Armsey, the program offered grants to Native American and Mexican-American students studying for doctoral degrees, and was later expanded to include black students.

James Patton Brownlow

After a brief expedition to fight Native Americans (Indians) and guerrillas from North Carolina in Cocke County, Tennessee, Colonels Brownlow and Palmer with about one thousand men of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry and 10th Ohio Cavalry held the army's right wing, watching for arrival of a Confederate force reportedly approaching East Tennessee from North Carolina.

Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas

Johan leads the tribe on a journey around the Americas, having comical encounters with other Native American cultures.

John Toye

He studied classical music in America and spent time living with Navajo Native Americans before attending drama school in London.

Johnny Moses

Johnny Moses is a Tulalip Native American master storyteller, oral historian, healer and spiritual leader.

Kimberly Loveless

Her mother is of Filipino and Chinese descent while her father was of Native American and Irish descent.

Megacerops

In the past, specimens exposed by severe rainstorms were found by Native Americans of the Sioux tribe.

Native American Languages of Arizona

Arizona, a state in the southwestern region of the United States of America, is known for its high population of Native Americans.

Ostrea lurida

This species has been recovered in archaeological excavations along the Central California coast of the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating it was a marine species exploited by the Native American Chumash people.

Petroleum County, Montana

The Native Americans living in the area then were the Crow, Blackfoot, Nez Perce, and Sioux, all hunter gatherers.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates

Such programs usually focus on targeting women and underrepresented minorities (e.g., African Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans and mainland Puerto Ricans).

Samuel Godin

The colony did not last very long as it was plundered by Native Americans soon after its founding.

Seymour Burr

Then in 1805 he married a widow, Mary (Will) Wilbore, daughter of Nuff Will and Sarah Moho (Mohho), a Native American woman of the Ponkapoag tribe, and settled in what is now Canton, Massachusetts.

St. Joseph's Indian School

Joseph's Indian School is located in Chamberlain, South Dakota, United States, and serves about 200 American Indian children.

Stephen Dow Beckham

Stephen Dow Beckham is a noted American historian known for his work with Native Americans and the American West, especially the Pacific Northwest and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

The Bastard Fairies

Yellow Thunder Woman is a Native American ("Yellow Thunder Woman" being the English translation of her birth name, Wakinyan Zi Win), while her band mate Davey is a British expatriate from Great Cheverell, near Devizes, Wiltshire, formerly in The Davey Brothers with his brother Jesse.

United American Indians of New England

The United American Indians of New England (UAINE) is a Native American activist organization founded by Frank James.

Veterans Songs

Genre = American Indian|

Veterans Songs is the first studio album by the American Indian drum group Lakota Thunder.

Welsh settlement in the Americas

He eventually landed near the Mississippi River and founded a colony, which later mingled with the Native Americans.

Willard Rhodes

He is known for his extensive recording of American Indian music between 1939 and 1952.

Witch-hazel

This plant extract was widely used for medicinal purposes by American Indians and is a component of a variety of commercial healthcare products.

Your Squaw Is on the Warpath

The album cover shows Lynn dressed in Native American clothing, out in the wilderness with her left hand over her head as if she is searching for something.


1920 Canton Bulldogs season

Thorpe, who was of mixed American Indian ancestry, left after the season to organize and play for an all-Native American team in LaRue, Ohio.

Adams County, Washington

62.5% were White, 1.9% Native American, 0.7% Asian, 0.6% Black or African American, 31.5% of some other race and 2.8% of two or more races.

Amos Chapman

Chapman was born in 1837 in Michigan, to white and Native American parents.

Bert Geer Phillips

During his childhood he was influenced by tales of the exploits of American frontiersman Kit Carson and other tales of Western adventure involving American Indians, such as those in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales.

Big Bay de Noc

As with the more thickly-settled Little Bay de Noc, the bay's name comes from the Noquet (or Noc) Native American people (thought to have been related to the Menominee of the Algonquian language group), who once lived along the shores.

Brabson's Ferry Plantation

Highway 338 follows what was once a stretch of the Great Indian Warpath, a trail used for centuries by Native Americans travelling up and down the Tennessee Valley.

Brookside Stadium

This fertile valley lands would have been transversed by early Native American visitors, farmed by the regions first white settlers, and eventually part of the original purchase to establish the Cleveland Metroparks system in 1894.

Cape May diamonds

The Native American tribe called the Kechemeche resided in what is now the southern portion of Cape May County, New Jersey.

Chief Wilson

Contrary to popular belief, Wilson was not of Native American descent.

Coconino High School

Activities offered include the Coconino High School Student Council, SkillsUSA, All Stars, Aztecca, Drama Club, the Coconino High School chapter of the National Honor Society, Native American Club, Rocketry Club and the Fabric Arts Club.

Corbin, KY Micropolitan Statistical Area

The racial makeup of the μSA was 98.37% White, 0.34% Black or African American, 0.23% Native American, 0.20% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.09% from other races, and 0.76% from two or more races.

Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians

The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, known to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) as the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians of Oregon is a federally recognized Native American tribal government based in Canyonville, Oregon, United States.

Darrell Kipp

Darrell Kipp (23 October 1944 - 21 November 2013) was a Native American author, historian, and educator.

Delores Churchill

Delores E. Churchill is a Native American artist of Haida descent.

Erna Gunther

An American Indian specialist, her research focused on the Salish and Makah peoples of western Washington State, with publications on ethnobotany, ethnohistory, and general ethnology.

Gran Cochisse

Barrón adopted a Nativ American character while wrestling called "Gran Cochisse" ("The Great Cochise") named after the Apache chief Cochise.

Harrell Site

The Harrell Site, also known as the M.D. Harrell Site, is a Native American archeological site near South Bend in southern Young County, Texas.

Hundsdorf

Each year, between Ascension and Whitsun, a Western town is built here in which Western and Indian clubs recreate the atmosphere of the Wild West for a few days under authentic conditions.

Ian Frazier

In his nonfiction works such as Great Plains, Family, and On the Rez, Frazier combines first-person narrative with in-depth research on topics including American history, Native Americans, fishing, and the outdoors.

Jefferson County, West Virginia

The racial makeup of the county was 91.02% White, 6.09% Black or African American, 0.60% Asian, 0.28% Native American, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.60% from other races, and 1.37% from two or more races.

Joseph C. Howard, Sr.

His father, a friend of civil rights leader Dr. Ralph Bunche, was a native of South Carolina, his mother has been described as Native American (Sioux).

Josiah Standish

Finding the chief hiding in a swamp, one of his men, an Indian named John Alderman shot Metacomet.

K. P. Yohannan

During his early years in Dallas, Texas, Yohannan became an ordained clergyman and served as a pastor of a Native American Southern Baptist church for four years.

Leo Calland

Calland was born in Ohio, and moved with his family as a child to the Seattle, Washington area, where he attended school in a log cabin on Lopez Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca; all of the other students were Native Americans.

Mance Lipscomb

Lipscomb was born April 9, 1895 to an ex-slave father from Alabama and a half Native American (Choctaw) mother.

Marine Hospital Service

Aside from merchant seamen, members of the military, immigrants, Native Americans, other federal beneficiaries, and people affected by chronic and epidemic diseases found a source for health care in the PHS and its hospitals.

Mark Farner

During the concert in Hankinson, North Dakota, a special presentation was held honoring Mark's Native ancestry and his contributions.

Mohave people

Mohave or Mojave (Mojave: 'Aha Makhav) are a Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert.

Native News Today

It looks at various events happening throughout Indian Country from an Indian perspective and also endeavors to show some of the good that Native Americans and Indian Tribes are doing throughout their areas.

Odell Borg

Odell Borg, of Native American (Ojibwe) and German heritage, currently living in Patagonia, Arizona, is a Native American flutist and flute maker.

Park County, Wyoming

95.6% were White, 0.6% Native American, 0.6% Asian, 0.2% Black or African American, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.4% of some other race and 1.6% of two or more races.

Peter Garland

He is also an expert on American Indian music, and on the music of Silvestre Revueltas.

Ralph E. Twitchell

He was prosecuting attorney for Santa Fe County and special counsel for the U.S. Department of the Interior dealing with Native American and water-rights cases.

Run of the Arrow

He renounces his family and America, travels west and joins the Native American Sioux tribe, and takes a wife (Yellow Moccasin, played by Sara Montiel).

Saxton Pope

He is most famous as the father of modern bow hunting, and for his close relationship with Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe and the last known American Indian to be raised largely isolated from Western culture.

Stephen Vincent Benét

The title of Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a history of Native Americans in the American West in the late nineteenth century, is taken from the final phrase of Benét's poem "American Names".

Theodore J. van den Broek

Hearing of the condition of the Native Americans in Michigan (now Wisconsin), he obtained permission from Archbishop John Baptist Purcell of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati to go to them, and arrived at Green Bay, Wisconsin, 4 July 1834.

Velvet painting

They often depict images of Elvis Presley (see Velvet Elvis), Dale Earnhardt, John Wayne, Jesus, Native Americans, dogs playing poker, wolves, and cowboys, and the colors are often bright and vivid to contrast the dark velvet.

White Rock Beverages

Potawatomi Indians and settlers believed that the nearby White Rock natural spring had special medicinal powers, so White Rock Beverages started out as destination for vacationers and health seekers.

Winnacunnet High School

The name Winnacunnet is a Native American word that means "beautiful place in the pines".

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo (also Tigua Pueblo) is a Puebloan Native American tribal entity in the Ysleta section of El Paso, Texas, comprising a formerly Southern Tiwa-speaking people who were displaced from New Mexico in 1680 and 1681 during the Pueblo Revolt against the Spaniards.