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41 unusual facts about Native Americans in the United States


1872 in art

December 23 - George Catlin - American painter who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West (born 1796)

1972 Washington Redskins season

The 1972 season was the first in which the team wore their current logo, which features a Native American head in profile within a gold circle.

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.

American Indian Genocide Museum

The American Indian Genocide Museum is a museum located in Houston, Texas that is dedicated to documenting the genocide committed against the American Indians.

Amos Chapman

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

Bill Winneshiek

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

Bobby Madritsch

Madritsch, who is Native American, was raised by his father and has never known his mother.

Carrie Sahmaunt

All Native American children were given English names and were taught the English language.

Catherine Weldon

After her divorce from Schlatter and later also from Weldon, she became committed to the cause of Native Americans, especially the Lakota Indians in the Dakota Territory.

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.

Dan Kubiak

In 1972, he published a second book, A Monument to a Black Man: The Biography of William Goyens, a study of the African American who served as an aide to Sam Houston and was a negotiator for Indian treaties.

Darrell Kipp

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

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.

Ekgmowechashala

Fossil evidence of Ekgmowechashala was discovered on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, an Oglala Sioux Native American reservation in South Dakota.

Ethnic minorities in the US armed forces during World War II

# 19,567 American Indians,

Gideon Lincecum

Lincecum had good relations with Native Americans as he explored the wilderness in the American Deep South.

Grace Hudson

The newlyweds shared a keen interest in preserving and recording Native American culture.

Grosse Point Light

The site of the Grosse Point Lighthouse is the purported site where Father Jacques Marquette landed in 1674 during his trip down the west side of Lake Michigan to visit various Illinois Native American tribes.

Harriet Livermore

Unlike Wolff however, Livermore became convinced that the American Indians were the lost tribes, and in 1832 she set out alone to evangelize them.

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.

John M. Drake

Drake and several other cavalry officers led lengthy explorations through eastern Oregon, northern Nevada, and southwestern Idaho searching for Indian raiders.

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.

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.

Lyle Berman

Grand Casinos' Native American casino holdings were spun off into a new company, Lakes Entertainment, and Berman was named CEO.

Mark Farner

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

Pop Ivy

A native of Skiatook, Oklahoma, Ivy was part Native American and earned his nickname because of premature baldness during his playing days.

Samuel D. Phillips

While serving as a private in Company H, 2nd U.S. Cavalry, he fought in an action against Indians at Muddy Creek in the Montana Territory on May 7, 1877.

Springtime Tallahassee

In recent years, Native Americans and other groups have protested the use of Andrew Jackson as a representative because of injustices to native Americans at the hands of Jackson and his soldiers during the Seminole Wars as well as Jackson's years as President.

Stan Lynde

It became "Chief Plenty Bucks", set in the West and starring a capitalistic Native American chief.

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.

The Desert Flower

Although based on Halévy's Jaguarita l'Indienne, the setting is shifted from Dutch Guyana to a Dutch settlement in North America under siege by Indians, led by their beautiful queen, Oanita.

Vera Francis

Vera J. Francis is an American Indian educator, environmental activist, and community planner for the Passamaquoddy people.

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.

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.

Zaniolepis

Z. frenata is known to have been a source of food to the Native American inhabitants of San Nicolas Island off the coast of southern California, USA during the Pleistocene.


Alamogordo Museum of History

It holds a bison trophy head, a collection of pottery from the La Luz Pottery Factory, and artifacts from prehistoric Native American tribes that were found in caves above Alamogordo.

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.

Chief Wilson

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

Chief Zee

Dressed in a faux American Indian headdress, rimmed glasses, and a red jacket, Chief Zee has been attending Redskins games since 1978.

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.

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.

Five Children and It

They also wish themselves into a castle, only to learn it's being besieged, while a wish to meet real Red Indians ends with the children nearly being scalped.

Gentle Thunder

Gentle Thunder, born Lisa Carpenter, is a Native American flautist of Cree heritage with three solo albums to date.

Georgia Wettlin Larsen

Georgia Wettlin Larsen is a Nakota singer who has released several discs featuring Native American songs.

Gran Cochisse

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

Hudson Middle School

The ethnic makeup of the school is 35.9% White, non-Hispanic, 38.1% Hispanic, 11.7% African American, 10.7% Asian/Pacific Islander, and 1% Native American.

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.

Indian Will

Indian Will was a well-known Native American who lived in a former settlement of the Shawnee Indians at the site of prevent day Cumberland, Maryland in the 18th century.

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.

John J. Schumacher

Ethnicity: African American, Asian American, Chicano/Latino/Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander, Person of color

Larry Sellers

He commonly portrays Native American characters such as his role on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Cloud Dancing and The Naked Indian spirit from Wayne's World 2.

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.

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.

Marvin Rainwater

He was known for wearing Native American-themed outfits on stage and was 25 percent Cherokee.

Matthew B. Juan

Mathew B. Juan (April 22, 1892 – May 28, 1918) was a Native American hero of World War I who died in the Battle of Cantigny.

Michael Levadoux

After the death of Dufaux, M. Levadoux had frequent occasion to minister to the spiritual wants of the Native Americans and of other scattered Catholics from Sandusky and Mackinaw to Fort Wayne.

Mist, Oregon

The Nehalem River valley widens between Mist and Jewell, and was favored by the Native American tribes of the area for hunting; it was later favored by early European American settlers for agriculture.

Mohave people

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

Odell Borg

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

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.

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.

Petroleum County, Montana

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

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".

Tipton, Indiana

Tipton Schools counts 1,851 students in K-12, with 97% being Caucasian, and the remaining 3% either African-American, Hispanic, Native American, Indian, or multiracial.

USS Etlah

Two warships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Etlah, derived from a Native American word meaning "White Lily".

Wabaquasset

The Wabaquasset were a band of Native Americans who formerly lived west of the Quinebaug River, in what is now Windham County, Connecticut.

Wauna, Oregon

According to Oregon Geographic Names, it names a Native American mythological being associated with the Columbia River.

Winnacunnet High School

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

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.