9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Dictionary Thesaurus Idioms Encyclopedia Related to Indians:Red Indians INDIANS. The aborigines of this country are so called. 2. In general, Indians have no political rights in the United States; they cannot vo...
2.Algonquin- family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains Algonquian language,Algonquian American-Indian language,Amerind,Amerindian language,American Indian,Indian- any of the languages spoken by Amerindians ...
Around 1660 the Iroquois swept the tribes from the Ohio Valley. This huge tract of land included Indiana, Kentucky, Lower Michigan, Ohio, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The Iroquois didn't inhabit this land, preferring to keep their villages to their homeland in New York state but th...
Mary’s, Okla., in charge of a secular priest assisted by five Sisters of Divine Providence now cares for 276 Indians of the associated remnant tribes, including about 40 of Miami kinship. Of an original 4000 or more there are left now only about 400, namely Indiana, 243; Miami in Okla...
(redirected from Potawatomi Indians)Also found in: Thesaurus. Pot·a·wat·o·mi (pŏt′ə-wŏt′ə-mē) n. pl. Potawatomi or Pot·a·wat·o·mis 1. A member of a Native American people variously located in Michigan, Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and northern Indiana in the...
Lowie's Indians of the Plains surveys in a lucid and concise fashion the history and culture of the Indian tribes between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. The author visited various tribes from 1906 to 1931, observing them carefully, participating in their lifeways, studying their ...
Thompson, S. (1968). Tales of the North American Indian. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.Thompson, S. Tales of the North American Indians . Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press (Midland Books), 1966.Thompson, Stith 1929 Tales of the North American Indians. Cambridge: Harvard ...
It made me wonder, if the ancient Cherokees were not themselves some of the other lost ten tribes, that had married Middle Eastern women, and had made their way to the eastern United States, thousands of years ago. That would account for my T1a haplogroup with so many Middle Eastern root...
They joined Pontiac against the English in 1764, aided the northern tribes in the ensuing destruction of the Illinois, and joined the same tribes and the English in the revolutionary wars and the War of 1812. Between 1809 and 1819 they ceded all their lands in Illinois and Indiana, ...
tribes occupying the country watered by the Ohio, Wabash, and Miami Rivers, in which they participated in a treaty made at Greenville, Ohio in 1795 by General Wayne, and in those of 1803, at Fort Wayne and Vincennes,Indiana. By these and succeeding treaties, the tribe ceded all their ...