Native American Indians North Of Mexico

Central Pennsylvania was never known as to have been the permanent settlement for any large group of Native Americans. It was more of a stop for traveling tribes or a place of refuge. The Cherokees once passed through here in the early 17th century (Wallace, 1970). The Susquehannock Indians were an Iroquois Indian tribe that settled the Susquehanna watershed before they migrated to Maryland, near the Chesapeake Bay (Cadzow, 1936). The tribe that stayed the longest and had the most influence on Central Pennsylvania was the Shawnee. The Shawnees were an Algonkian people whose original home was most likely the Cumberland River in Tennessee. This southern position gave them the name Shawnee, meaning "southerners" in the Algonkian language. The Shawnees split up often and moved around a lot, they are noted to have lived in parts of Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Their first known appearance in Pennsylvania in great numbers was in 1697 (Harvey, 1855). The tribe had five main groups: Chillicothe, Kispokotha, Pique, Sawekela, and the Makostrake (Johnson, 1937). These became so intermixed that they are now indistinguishable. The reasons for these groups were mainly for political and ritual purposes and did not affect

European Americans have commonly failed to recognize the plurality of American Indian groups, as they have classified all Indians as being in the same group of “natural beings” that wear feathers and ride on horses. However, there are many different American Indian groups and communities, and some groups had further divisions, such as the Lakota. The Lakota were made of seven tribes, the Oglalas, Brulés, Minneconjous, Hunkpapas, Two Kettles, Sihasapas, and Sans Arcs (7). Out of these, the Oglalas and the Brulés got the most attention, as they spent the most time in the Black Hills out of the tribes; however, the other tribes were definitely affected by United States policy too as the Europeans set up forts all over their territory (13).

The Ojibwa or known as the Chippewa in European are people of northeastern North America. The term Ojibwa is said to mean the puckered moccasin people or they say the French said the word meant pictograph. The Chippewa Indians mainly lived in the Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and Michigan. There was 35,000 Ojibwa on the continent in the mid seventeenth century. They used the word Anishinabeg to describes themselves which means “original people.” The Ojibwa has its own cultural values like honesty, generosity, endurance, wisdom, and strength of character. All these values have been instilled through education and religious practice. The tribe has had ties with the French and even helped the French fight against the British in the French and Indian war. The French traders would even wed Chippewa women. The family was of great importance to the Ojibwa tribes.

HI I will be talking about the dakota and ojibwe and they been apart of minnesota for about 1,000 years.

The Lenni-Lenape, are a Native American tribe that lived around what is now Delaware. Because of this they are often called the Delaware Indians. The Lenape actually still exist today in Oklahoma and Wisconsin. When the Europeans came, the Lenape were driven westward during the late 1600 and 1700s.

Where are they now? In the 1830s, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act which forcibly relocated the 5 “Civilized” Indian Tribes: Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole. Even though they were slowly integrating American culture and were showing great progress toward civilization. The Indians were forced to adapt to the new, foreign environment they were sent to or be killed by American soldiers because for one they were considered “dangerous savages”. To them their environment shaped their sense of identity, so when they were relocated they had a undergo a drastic change to survive which had great effects on the tribes’ futures. For example, the Cherokee are currently divided into three groups because of the Indian Removal

Adsila and her tribe were the last of the Five Civilized Tribes to be removed from their homes and placed in a different location. The Five Civilized Tribes were the Seminole, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek. While on the way to their new home, they found umpteen different bodies on the side of the road. The roads were covered in snow and in the snow were the bodies of people of uncounted tribes that Adsila and her family knew of.

Referred to as "Hisatsinom" by their Hopi descendants, the people are probably better known as "Anasazi," the Navajo name said to mean "ancient enemies." Other, more traditional, Native

The Menominee, a group of Native Americans, currently reside in Wisconsin, which has always been their home. Beginning in 1667, the French send missionaries to educate the tribe, as well as fur traders to trade with them. Later, the Menominee also began trading with Britain. During wars between Britain, its colonies, or Native American tribes, and the French, the Menominee sided with the French. During the American Revolution, the Menominee decided to fight with the British because they didn’t want to lose their land to the Colonists. However, after the British lost the war, the Menominee eventually made peace with the Americans in 1817. Through a series of treaties, the Menominee lost land to the government and other Native American tribes.

The Absentee Shawnee tribe is one of the many Native American Tribes in the state of Oklahoma. Like most of the other tribes in America, they faced unsettling times but today they are well recognized. During the American Revolutionary War several peace-seeking Shawnee traveled from Ohio to Arkansas, Texas, and Spanish Louisiana Territory, ending up settling around what today is Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Later they were joined by other Shawnee who came from Alabama and Ohio.

According to a website about the Muckleshoot tribe http://www.npaihb.org/member_tribes/tribe/muckleshoot_tribe Muckleshoot Indian tribe is a federally known Indian tribe. Their members are usually collected from descendant of the Duwamish and higher Puyallup people, who inhabited central Puget Sound for thousands of years before the non-Indian resolution. The name of the tribe is a resultant from the native name for the prairie on which the Muckleshoot reservation was founded.

All humans are interested in their origins and trying to account for their existence through creation stories. Native Americans tribes are no different from the rest of humanity. The tribes’ stories explain how people came into existence, how they came to be live on the lands they do and the how people interact with nature and each other. These trends can be seen in the legends of three tribes hailing from New England to the Great Lakes Region.

The Unangan people also known as the Aleut, were a group of native people that originated from Alaska in the far western portion. These native people were known as outsiders in this specific area. From southwest Alaska all the way to Asia is a chain of islands that are call the Aleutians. The term “Aleut” was discovered by one of the Unangan groups that was from the Near Islands. Since then the term has been used for all the Unangan groups and also to some of another group from the east called the Yup’ik. There were about 10,000 people in the Unangan group when they were first contacted by Russia in 1741. The Unangan people and the Yup’ik people are very different in many ways. They are different by economy, language, technology, and by the

The area is also referred to as the Eastern Woodlands region and encompasses New York State and the immediate surrounding areas. The Iroquois originally called themselves Kanonsionni, meaning people of the Longhouse (the name of the shelter they live in), but today they go by the name Haudenosaunee. Originally five tribes made up this larger group, but in 1722 a sixth tribe joined the Iroquois nation and they also became known as the Six Nations.The Iroquois were hunters and gatherers, farmers, and fishermen but the main staples of their diet came from farming. They harvested the three sisters -corn, beans, and squash as well as tobacco for smoking. Their crops were grown in a very specific manner and were managed, grown, and harvested by the women of the tribe. Out of six annual ceremonies, four of them revolved around the corn

Many people don’t know where Native Americans come from. Native Americans (also known as Indigenous peoples of the Americas) all over America is socially diverse groups who traveled across a long-gone bridge of land from Asia to North America at least 13,000 years ago. Native American go by so many different names like: "American Indian," "Native American," "First Nations," and "indigenous people." Depending on where you are in determining what phrase you use. Most people identify themselves by their tribe (such as Lumbee).