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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...
Haudenosaunee: Who We Are The Haundenosaunee Confederacy has been in place since time immemorial. The Peacemaker was sent by the Creator to spread the Kariwiio or good mind. With the help of Aiionwatha commonly known as Hiawatha, the Peacemaker taught the laws of peace to the Haudenosaunee. Travelling from community to community they both succeeded in persuading the Chiefs of each nation to joi...
Red Cloud Cemetery resides in Pine Ridge, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota. Also known as Holy Rosary Cemetery, the burying ground was associated with Jesuit's Holy Rosary Mission. The Red Cloud Indian School was established by the Mission in 1888. Marquette Library Archives Most of the interments in Red Cloud Cemetery are of indigenous peoples. They were congregants of the Holy Rosary M...
Holy Cross Cemetery resides on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota. The earliest graves date from 1890. The cemetery is active. Those interred at Holy Cross Cemetery are First Nations peoples. Find a Grave "Located in the southwestern corner of South Dakota, the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately 100 miles from Rapid City. Surrounded by rolling prairie, Bad...
Onondaga Nation Cemetery is located on the Onondaga Nation in the Indian Village, Onondaga County, New York. The earliest, recorded burials occurred in the 1860s. The cemetery is still active. "There are two cemeteries on the Onondaga Nation Reservation. Please check both listings before adding any names. This (newer) cemetery is located off Route 11A, on the Onondaga Indian Nation Territory n...
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 Seneca or Onödowá’ga:’ (pronounced: Oh-n'own-dough-wahgah) or "Great Hill People" are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who historically lived south of Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes in North America. Their nation was the farthest to the west within the Six Nations or Iroquois League (Haudenosaunee) in New York before the American Revolution. They were the largest ...
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...
Crow Agency Cemetery resides in Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana. This burying ground holds over 1500 graves, scattered across the flat land of sky and field. The earliest burial is that of Spotted Horse, the great Crow chief, who was interred at Crow Agency in 1903. The cemetery is active. Find a Grave Crow Agency is the headquarters of the Crow Indian Reservation and is close to the...
People of the Standing Stone Oneida, self-name Onᐱyoteʔa∙ká (“People of the Standing Stone”), Iroquoian-speaking North American Indian tribe living, at the time of European contact, in what is now central New York state, U.S. They are one of the original five nations of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy. Like the other Iroquois tribes, the Oneida were semisedentary and practiced corn (ma...
Holy Apostles Church Cemetery resides in the town of Hobart in Oneida, Brown, Wisconsin. Also known as Holy Apostles Episcopal Church Cemetery, the church and cemetery are located on the Oneida Reservation. The earliest, recorded burials date from 1819. The cemetery is still active and interments are indigenous peoples and their families. Find a Grave The Oneida are apart of the Haudenosa...
People of the Flint The Mohawk people - Kanienʼkehá꞉ka, are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original members of the Iroquois League, the Kanien...
People of the Great Swamp The Cayuga (Cayuga: Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ, "People of the Great Swamp") are one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), a confederacy of Native Americans in New York. The Cayuga homeland lies in the Finger Lakes region along Cayuga Lake, between their league neighbors, the Onondaga to the east and the Seneca to the west. Today, Cayuga people belong t...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . The state of New Mexico was admitted to the Union on January 6, 1912, becoming the 47th state. New Mexico is located in the Southwestern portion of the United States, it is fifth by area, and the 36th-most populous. Prior to it's exploration by the Spanish in the 16th century, the area comprising the current state of New Mexico had been inha...
People of the Hills The Onondaga Nation is a member of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The Haudenosaunee is translated to the People of the Longhouse which is an alliance of native nations united for hundreds of years by law, traditions, beliefs, and cultural values. The Haudenosaunee is also referred to as the Iroquois or the Six Nation Confederacy. The Haudenosaunee consist of the Mohawk, Onei...
History The Crow called themselves the Apsáalooké or Absaroka, which means “children of the Large-Beaked Bird.” This name was misunderstood by white men to mean “Crow.” Other Native tribes referred to the Crow as “Crow” or “Raven” in their respective languages. Many Apsáalooké believe that the large-beaked bird that they were named after was the mythical Thunderbird, not a crow. The Crow trib...
Shirt Wearing People The Tuscarora peoples are an Indigenous group in the Iroquoian language family. This nation had its origins in what is now the state of North Carolina, but they migrated north to New York and Pennsylvania in the 18th century. The word Tuscarora is derived from their extensive use of hemp for cloth, rope, and other materials, and it means "hemp gatherers." After a migration...
Beginnings The Stockbridge-Munsee are descended from Algonkian-speaking Indians, primarily Mohicans (also spelled Mahican or Mahikan, but not to be confused with the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut) and Munsee Delawares, who migrated from New York, Pennsylvania, and New England to Wisconsin in the 1820s and 1830s. The Stockbridge originally lived in western Massachusetts and moved to north-central...
A formação do povo brasileiro como hoje o conhecemos tem início com o processo de colonização portuguesa nas primeiras décadas do século XVI. A miscigenação foi sempre um traço decisivo, se apresentando desde os primeiros contatos entre os portugueses e os indígenas nativos das terras brasileiras, assim como se observaria a partir da chegada de negros africanos trazidos ao Brasil para realizar ...
The indigenous peoples of Brazil are the inhabitants originating from the Brazilian territory and were present here before the arrival of the Europeans in the late fifteenth century. There is a great diversity of indigenous peoples in Brazil, and the indigenous population, according to the 2022 census criteria, is approximately 1.6 million. Currently, there are still a number of obstacles in t...
The Hopi are a Native American ethnic group who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona, United States. As of the 2010 census, there are 19,338 Hopi in the country. The Hopi Tribe is a sovereign nation within the United States and has government-to-government relations with the United States federal government. Particular villages retain autonomy under the Hopi Constituti...
North American Tribes Southwest Includes the Following States Arizona | Nevada | New Mexico Includes the Following Native American Tribes Apache Awatobi Chemehuevi Coahuiltec Cocopa Comanche Havasupai Hopi Jemez Keresan Family Kiowa Kiowa Apache Lipan Manso Maricopa Mohave Navajo Tribe (Diné) Paiute Papago ( Tohono O'odham )
Inestimable Gift Cemetery resides in Allen, Bennett County, South Dakota. This small burying ground's earliest interments occurred in the1870s. The cemetery is still active. Inestimable Gift Cemetery is connected to and encapsulates several family cemeteries. Known also as the Inestimable Gift Episcopal Church Cemetery, the plots within hold mostly indigenous denizens. Find a Grave
The Ponca The Ponca people[a] are a nation primarily located in the Great Plains of North America that share a common Ponca culture, history, and language, identified with two Indigenous nations: the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma or the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska. Historically, the Ponca originated as a constituent part of a large nation situated along the Ohio River valley. This nation comp...