The Nez Perce people helped Lewis and Clark explore the Northwest Territory. They built canoes for them, drew maps of the rivers, and helped them reach the Pacific.[14] Sacagawea (1788–1812) was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who helped the Lewis and Clark expedition as an interpreter and a guide...
Tiyapo Campbell is a Nez Perce athlete and traditional fisherman who, like every Native American, walks in two worlds — the Native American and non-Native — both on and off the reservation. Chacee Boy Hale is a descendent of the Mandan people who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition ...
This section focuses on the lives of American Indians of the Northern Plains and the Rocky Mountain region. Native peoples have lived in this region for thousands of years. When Euro-Americans moved into this part of America, conflicts followed. Despite being forced onto reservations and having m...
George Bent (1843-1918) –George Bent was a Cheyenne-American interpreter, historian, Civil War soldier, and Cheyenne Dog Soldier who lived in Colorado.Big Bill –A Paiute chief, Big Bill led the Indians who aided the notorious Mormon John D. Lee in the Mountain Meadows Massacre in ...
and so Sacagawea became their interpreter as well as of importance in relating information about various geographical areas. In addition when other Native American tribes saw that Lewis and Clark were traveling with a woman and small child (he son Jean Baptiste), they took the group as being pe...
By countering the racist fixations that have plagued stories of Native American culture, they hope to reverse the “invisibility” that many feel.
Kaliska (Native American)–“Coyote chasing deer” Nicoma (Native American –Iowa) –“We stand together” or “I do as I promise”; after the 19th-century fur trader Peter Sarpy’s wife who helped establish several towns across Nebraska Nishiime (Native American and Japanese girl name; pro...
A woman who was born or raised in a specified place:a native daughter of the Gulf Coast; Minnesota's most well-known native daughter. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton...
Lewis, He Dog, Spotted Horse, American Horse, Maj Gen Sword, Louis Shangreaux, Bat Pourier; (3rd row, standing) Dave Zephier, Hump, High Pipe, Fast Thunder, Rev. Charles Cook, and P.T. Johnson. Denver Public Library In the 1900 federal census of the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation,...
Prevention efforts aimed to help Indian young people acquire bicultural competence are guided by theory and data suggesting that Native American youth who understand the prerogatives of both cultures may prosper over their counterparts who may identify with only one or the other culture LaFromboise &...