New York’s Native American History Semi-nomadic Indigenous people have been living in the area now known as New York for at least 13,000 years, settling in the space around Lake Champlain, the Hudson River Valley and Oneida Lake. The Haudenosaunee Na
and Billings, serve 30,000 people, including some who are not Native American or enrolled in a tribe. The clinics provide a wide range of services, including primary care, dental care, disease prevention, health education, and substance use prevention. ...
DENVER, the United States, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Water flowing from faucets in the Navajo Nation is "grayish in color and smells like boiled eggs," according to Native American leaders in the region. "This is what we see on a daily basis," Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Chairman Manuel Heart s...
Harkins wrote a letter to the American public to express his feelings on the subject of removal. 4. Andrew Jackson’s letter to the Cherokee, 1835 On March 16, 1835, President Andrew Jackson addressed the Cherokee Tribe east of the Mississippi River and tried to persuade them to accept a ...
Most tribes had religious leaders called shamans. Shamans sought to tap the supernatural power for the good of the tribe. They used their skills to try to cure illness, improve harvests, cause rain to fall, or lead hunters to game animals. ...
California is home to the largest Native American population in the country with more than 160 tribes. The state ranks 5th for the country's most cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people. It's been described as an epidemic, an emergency and a crisis by California tribal leaders desperat...
Yet, the leaders of this tribe were always respected. They had led the fiercest battles against the American armies, causing substantial numbers of casualties. Of course, they never left any living behind. Even the unarmed who followed the Western Expansion in the Ohio River were slaughtered merc...
With Native American reservations in the United States viewed as sovereign nations, tribal leaders face the same responsibilities as any other government leaders to provide for their people and secure financing to pay forlaw enforcement, social services, and road work. ...
Chief, political leader of a social group, such as a band, tribe, or confederacy of tribes. Among many peoples, chiefs have very little coercive authority and depend on community consensus for implementing recommendations; often a number of recognized ch
Native American - Tribes, Culture, History: The thoughts and perspectives of Indigenous individuals, especially those who lived during the 15th through 19th centuries, have survived in written form less often than is optimal for the historian. Because su