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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...
Dakota, Lakota and NakotaTribes The goal of this project is to collect and integrate the family trees of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota ("Sioux") tribes. Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Great Sioux Nation) The Sioux Nation was and is, comprised of 3 major sub-divisions; LAKOTA - or Teton: Prairie Dwellers - with Seven Bands: Oglala - They Scatter Their Own or Dust Scatters Sicangu - or Brule: Bur...
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...
This project is comprised of profiles for members of the Brothertown Indian Nation and their descendants.The Brothertown came together in 1700s under the leadership of Samson Occum. The tribe descends from Christian Indians of the Mohegan, Pequot, Niantic, Narragansett, Montaukett and Tunxis tribes from seven separate Indian villages in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Long Island, New York. All o...
Original Tribal Names of Native North American People Please note that this chart is not complete--we have included only the names of North American nations (not of every band or village within a nation), and only those nations whose original names are known. With the exception of Cree and Cherokee, American Indian languages do not have their own writing systems, so the names must be written us...
Sand Hill Cemetery resides in Fort Hall, Bingham County, Idaho. Located on tribal land, the burying ground is a private cemetery for the Shoshone and Bannock Tribes. A permit is required to visit. The earliest burial dates from 1890 and the cemetery us still active at present. The reservation on which Sand Hill Cemetery stands is the Fort Hall Resevation.
Shoshone-Bannock Shoshone-Bannock Tribes -any of the bands formerly of the Shoshone and Bannock peoples of North America who later chose to live as one people. Some of these bands shared the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho after its creation in 1863. In 1937 certain of these bands chose to incorporate jointly under federal charter and became officially recognized as Shoshone-Bannock. Other bands...
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...
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...
What is a "notable?". "worthy of notice"; that is, "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded". Notable in the sense of being "famous", or "popular"—although not irrelevant—is secondary.So let's celebrate our indigenous peoples (American Indian, First Nations, Aleuts, Caribbean Islands, Central and South American tribal peoples ... ) and their descendant...
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 Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux are an Anishinaabe people in what is currently southern Canada, the northern Midwestern United States, and Northern Plains. They are Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic and Northeastern Woodlands. According to the U.S. census, Ojibwe people are one of the largest tribal populations among Native American peoples in the United States. In Canada, they ar...
Do not add profiles to this project. Add relevant profiles to related projects. This portal is meant to be a jumping off place for all Nations, Tribes, Clans. When finished it will contain no profiles but it will contain the links and documents that will help you name historic individuals. In the related projects you will find projects of specific groups. Since there are so many Indigenous ...
A2am = A2am is a subclade of mtdna haplogroup A [ )], downstream of his native american branch A2 : A2 > A2-C64T > A2-G16129A! > A2am == A2am haplotrees ==A2am on public FTDNA haplotree: on Yfull Mtdna haplotree: Ancient DNA ==One A2am ancient DNA found in 2020 in Curaçao (I13472 - de Savaan), dated 660ybp, in an archeological context of Curaçao ceramic period (ca. 450 and 1500 CE). This paper ...
The Apache (/əˈpætʃi/) are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Mimbreño, Ndendahe (Bedonkohe or Mogollon and Nednhi or Carrizaleño and Janero), Salinero, Plains (Kataka or Semat or "Kiowa-Apache") and Western Apache (Aravaipa, Pinaleño, Coyotero, Tonto). Distant cousins of the Apache a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nansemond History and GenealogyThe goal of this project is to develop genealogical and historical knowledge of the Nansemond, indigenous peoples of North America.===Who are the Nansemond?From Nansemond Indian Nation, official website: history >We, the Nansemond, are the indigenous people of the Nansemond River, a 20-mile long tributary of the James River in Virginia. Our tribe was part of the T...
Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup A2 =Haplogroup A2 is an Native Americas branch on the maternal tree of human kind. It is the daughter of the A branch. The woman who founded this line lived about 16,000 years ago.== Origin ==The line’s likely origin is far East Asia. It could also be the Americas. Most members of this branch though traveled to the Americas long ago and founded Native populations in...
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...