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The goal of this project is to develop accurate and documented genealogical and historical knowledge of the Cherokee, indigenous peoples of North America. Who are the Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ)? (from ) The Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ) are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia, the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee). Linguistically, they are part of the Ir...
Native American/American Indian Boarding Schools/Residential Schools This project is to acknowledge the traumatic and, at times, triumphant experiences of those Native American children who were forced, coerced and placed in Native American Boarding Schools. These are the schools and the places, a long way from home, which changed the fabric of the Native American in the United States and Canad...
Welcome to the Native American Chiefs Project. The Native American Chiefs Project is for people who have a strong interest in Native American history and culture. Designed for people to learn about a variety of Native American histories and cultures and for the preservation of cultures and langues, for people to share what they know. For sharing and learning about Native Americans from 16th and...
The Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members as of 2021, the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country. The reservation straddles the Four Corners region and covers more than 27,325 square miles of land in Ar...
Notables among the Alutiiq and Aleuts of Alaska.The Aleut (Unangax̂) and Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), are south and southwest Alaska, maritime peoples, both with similar cultures and spoken dialects from the same language family, although not mutually intelligible. They are also considered unrelated, although there has been a significant amount of marriages between the groups, resulting in some Alutiiq f...
Please add any Native American/Indigenous/First Nations/American Indians who were or are athletes to this project. Running The Distance The resiliency of Indigenous people is grounded in their physical well-being. Health and wellness are deeply rooted in who we are and what we do, our food systems and agricultural practices, and our relationship to the land. Through the cooperation of not jus...
The Cheyenne (/ʃaɪˈæn/ shy-AN) are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains. Their Cheyenne language belongs to the Algonquian language family. Today, the Cheyenne people are split into two federally recognized nations: the Southern Cheyenne, who are enrolled in the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes in Oklahoma, and the Northern Cheyenne, who are enrolled in the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Norther...
Please add people with documented Chickasaw background only to this project. The Chickasaw are believed to have migrated into Mississippi from the west, as their oral history attests. They and the Choctaw were once one people and migrated from west of the Mississippi River into present-day Mississippi in prehistoric times; the Chickasaw and Choctaw split along the way. The Chickasaw remaine...
This is a list of Choctaw chiefs as documented by the Choctaw Nation .=Before and during the removal===Historical==*Tchito -- titled Mingo Tchito which just means "big chief." Is this actually an identity or just a generic title?* Shulush Homastubby "Red Shoes" 1729-1747==1800-1857 Apukshunnubbee District (Okla Falaya)==* Apuckshunnubbe before 1801-1824* Robert Cole 1824-1826* Greenwood LeFlore...
Creek Indian Chiefs and Leaders== Draft 3/23/2011 by Marvin Caulk no special order#Bosomworth, Mary, A noted Creek Indian woman, also known as Mary Mathews and Mary Musgrove#Chekilli#Davis, John#Emistesigo. Known also as Gurister-sigo#Fife#Great Mortar (Yayatustenuggee)#McGillivray, Alexander#Opothleyaholo (properly Hupuehelth Yahólo)#Weatherford, William (known also as Lamochattee, or Red Eagl...
If you would like to join this project just request to and then please add any Chickasaw Nation Chiefs, Leaders in Tribal Affairs or Government, and Prominent and Influential members both men and women to this project.=Piomingo and Tishomingo== About Piominko=Born near Tupelo, Mississippi, in approximately 1750, Piominko served the Chickasaw people as a leader, diplomat and negotiator during th...
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is January 18 in 2016. Today we are in the American long weekend that leads to that celebration. This is a special day for genealogists who are tracing relationship paths back through those people with some Native (Indigenous/Indian) heritage and may not know about the Black component of much of that Native heritage. Some of the "Indians" who captured "Whites" had so...