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51 unusual facts about native Americans in the United States


1872 in art

December 23 - George Catlin - American painter who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West (born 1796)

1920 Canton Bulldogs season

Thorpe, who was of mixed American Indian ancestry, left after the season to organize and play for an all-Native American team in LaRue, Ohio.

American Indian Genocide Museum

The American Indian Genocide Museum is a museum located in Houston, Texas that is dedicated to documenting the genocide committed against the American Indians.

Amos Chapman

He was of mixed white and Native American ancestry, and married a Cheyenne woman, maintaining Native American customs throughout his life.

Ben Tincup

Tincup was one of the first Native Americans to play Major League Baseball.

Boileryard Clarke

Clarke moved to New Mexico in his early childhood and was raised in Indian territory, and studied civil engineering in Santa Fe at Brothers College.

Catherine Troeh

Catherine Herrold Troeh (January 5, 1911 – June 28, 2007) was an American historian, artist, activist and advocate for Native American rights and culture, especially in the Pacific Northwest.

Catherine Weldon

After her divorce from Schlatter and later also from Weldon, she became committed to the cause of Native Americans, especially the Lakota Indians in the Dakota Territory.

Chief Wilson

Contrary to popular belief, Wilson was not of Native American descent.

Chief Zee

Dressed in a faux American Indian headdress, rimmed glasses, and a red jacket, Chief Zee has been attending Redskins games since 1978.

Clara Blinn

Clara Blinn (1847–1868) was a white settler who, with her two-year-old son Willie, was captured by Indians in October 1868 in Colorado Territory during an attack on the wagon train in which she and her family were traveling.

Dan Kubiak

In 1972, he published a second book, A Monument to a Black Man: The Biography of William Goyens, a study of the African American who served as an aide to Sam Houston and was a negotiator for Indian treaties.

Darrell Kipp

Darrell Kipp (23 October 1944 - 21 November 2013) was a Native American author, historian, and educator.

Debates over Americanization

This included the land, resources, as well as the Natives of the West.

Ethnic minorities in the US armed forces during World War II

# 19,567 American Indians,

European colonization of the Southern United States

Europeans married and made unions with Africans and Native Americans.

Gamelan Council

The name of the organization is a combination of the Indonesian word referring to a music ensemble, ‘Gamelan,’ and English word referring to a Native American, community-fostering ritual, ‘Council’ (the same term used to refer commonly to a group of individuals providing advice and counsel).

Grace Hudson

The newlyweds shared a keen interest in preserving and recording Native American culture.

Great Falls Park

Native American petroglyphs have been discovered within the park on cliffs overlooking Difficult Run.

Harriet Livermore

Unlike Wolff however, Livermore became convinced that the American Indians were the lost tribes, and in 1832 she set out alone to evangelize them.

Hordeum pusillum

The tiny seeds are edible, and this plant was part of the Eastern Agricultural Complex of cultivated plants used in Pre-Columbian times by Native Americans.

Hundsdorf

Each year, between Ascension and Whitsun, a Western town is built here in which Western and Indian clubs recreate the atmosphere of the Wild West for a few days under authentic conditions.

Indian Fantasy

The piece is based on several melodies and rhythms from various American Indian tribes; Busoni had received them from American ethnomusicologist Natalie Curtis Burlin.

Indian Queens

Her swarthy appearance gave onlookers the impression that she was an Indian.

James Armsey

Directed by Armsey, the program offered grants to Native American and Mexican-American students studying for doctoral degrees, and was later expanded to include black students.

James Patton Brownlow

After a brief expedition to fight Native Americans (Indians) and guerrillas from North Carolina in Cocke County, Tennessee, Colonels Brownlow and Palmer with about one thousand men of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry and 10th Ohio Cavalry held the army's right wing, watching for arrival of a Confederate force reportedly approaching East Tennessee from North Carolina.

John J. Schumacher

Ethnicity: African American, Asian American, Chicano/Latino/Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander, Person of color

John M. Drake

Drake and several other cavalry officers led lengthy explorations through eastern Oregon, northern Nevada, and southwestern Idaho searching for Indian raiders.

Jonathan D. Keaton

He served as Associate Council Director of the NIC (October 1982 to 30 June 1990), where his responsibilities included Church and Society, Ethnic Minority Local Churches (Native American, Asian, Hispanic, and Black), and Spiritual formation.

Kimberly Loveless

Her mother is of Filipino and Chinese descent while her father was of Native American and Irish descent.

Lower Thames and Medway Passenger Boat Company

It is named after the Native American Princess Pocahontas who is buried at Gravesend, and it is operated by Freemen of the River Thames.

Marine Hospital Service

Aside from merchant seamen, members of the military, immigrants, Native Americans, other federal beneficiaries, and people affected by chronic and epidemic diseases found a source for health care in the PHS and its hospitals.

Megacerops

In the past, specimens exposed by severe rainstorms were found by Native Americans of the Sioux tribe.

Native American Languages of Arizona

Arizona, a state in the southwestern region of the United States of America, is known for its high population of Native Americans.

Native American Renaissance

In The Native American Renaissance,Lincoln explores the significant increase in production of literary works by Native Americans in the years following the publication of N. Scott Momaday's novel House Made of Dawn, which garnered critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969.

Olga Talamante

She was Western branch Vice President of INROADS, an association aimed at helping Hispanic, African American and Native American business and engineering students to gain college scholarships.

Ostrea lurida

This species has been recovered in archaeological excavations along the Central California coast of the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating it was a marine species exploited by the Native American Chumash people.

Pop Ivy

A native of Skiatook, Oklahoma, Ivy was part Native American and earned his nickname because of premature baldness during his playing days.

Samuel Godin

The colony did not last very long as it was plundered by Native Americans soon after its founding.

Seymour Burr

Then in 1805 he married a widow, Mary (Will) Wilbore, daughter of Nuff Will and Sarah Moho (Mohho), a Native American woman of the Ponkapoag tribe, and settled in what is now Canton, Massachusetts.

Springtime Tallahassee

In recent years, Native Americans and other groups have protested the use of Andrew Jackson as a representative because of injustices to native Americans at the hands of Jackson and his soldiers during the Seminole Wars as well as Jackson's years as President.

Stan Lynde

It became "Chief Plenty Bucks", set in the West and starring a capitalistic Native American chief.

Stephen Dow Beckham

Stephen Dow Beckham is a noted American historian known for his work with Native Americans and the American West, especially the Pacific Northwest and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

The Desert Flower

Although based on Halévy's Jaguarita l'Indienne, the setting is shifted from Dutch Guyana to a Dutch settlement in North America under siege by Indians, led by their beautiful queen, Oanita.

USS Etlah

Two warships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Etlah, derived from a Native American word meaning "White Lily".

Veterans Songs

Veterans Songs is the first studio album by the American Indian drum group Lakota Thunder.

Vi Hilbert

Vi Hilbert (née Anderson, Lushootseed name: taqʷšəblu, July 24, 1918 – December 19, 2008) was a Native American tribal elder of the Upper Skagit, a tribe of the greater Puget Salish in Washington State, whose ancestors occupied the banks along the Skagit River, and was a conservationist of the Lushootseed language and culture.

Welsh settlement in the Americas

He eventually landed near the Mississippi River and founded a colony, which later mingled with the Native Americans.

Willard Rhodes

He is known for his extensive recording of American Indian music between 1939 and 1952.

Witch-hazel

This plant extract was widely used for medicinal purposes by American Indians and is a component of a variety of commercial healthcare products.

Your Squaw Is on the Warpath

The album cover shows Lynn dressed in Native American clothing, out in the wilderness with her left hand over her head as if she is searching for something.


Adams County, Washington

62.5% were White, 1.9% Native American, 0.7% Asian, 0.6% Black or African American, 31.5% of some other race and 2.8% of two or more races.

Alamogordo Museum of History

It holds a bison trophy head, a collection of pottery from the La Luz Pottery Factory, and artifacts from prehistoric Native American tribes that were found in caves above Alamogordo.

Big Bay de Noc

As with the more thickly-settled Little Bay de Noc, the bay's name comes from the Noquet (or Noc) Native American people (thought to have been related to the Menominee of the Algonquian language group), who once lived along the shores.

Bill Winneshiek

The Indians were a team based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe.

Brabson's Ferry Plantation

Highway 338 follows what was once a stretch of the Great Indian Warpath, a trail used for centuries by Native Americans travelling up and down the Tennessee Valley.

Brookside Stadium

This fertile valley lands would have been transversed by early Native American visitors, farmed by the regions first white settlers, and eventually part of the original purchase to establish the Cleveland Metroparks system in 1894.

Coconino High School

Activities offered include the Coconino High School Student Council, SkillsUSA, All Stars, Aztecca, Drama Club, the Coconino High School chapter of the National Honor Society, Native American Club, Rocketry Club and the Fabric Arts Club.

Corbin, KY Micropolitan Statistical Area

The racial makeup of the μSA was 98.37% White, 0.34% Black or African American, 0.23% Native American, 0.20% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.09% from other races, and 0.76% from two or more races.

Delores Churchill

Delores E. Churchill is a Native American artist of Haida descent.

Erna Gunther

An American Indian specialist, her research focused on the Salish and Makah peoples of western Washington State, with publications on ethnobotany, ethnohistory, and general ethnology.

Georgia Wettlin Larsen

Georgia Wettlin Larsen is a Nakota singer who has released several discs featuring Native American songs.

Gran Cochisse

Barrón adopted a Nativ American character while wrestling called "Gran Cochisse" ("The Great Cochise") named after the Apache chief Cochise.

Harrell Site

The Harrell Site, also known as the M.D. Harrell Site, is a Native American archeological site near South Bend in southern Young County, Texas.

Hudson Middle School

The ethnic makeup of the school is 35.9% White, non-Hispanic, 38.1% Hispanic, 11.7% African American, 10.7% Asian/Pacific Islander, and 1% Native American.

Ian Frazier

In his nonfiction works such as Great Plains, Family, and On the Rez, Frazier combines first-person narrative with in-depth research on topics including American history, Native Americans, fishing, and the outdoors.

Indian Will

Indian Will was a well-known Native American who lived in a former settlement of the Shawnee Indians at the site of prevent day Cumberland, Maryland in the 18th century.

Jefferson County, West Virginia

The racial makeup of the county was 91.02% White, 6.09% Black or African American, 0.60% Asian, 0.28% Native American, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.60% from other races, and 1.37% from two or more races.

Johannes Bapst

He arrived in New York in 1848 and, ignorant of English, was sent to minister to the Native Americans at Old Town, Maine.

Joseph C. Howard, Sr.

His father, a friend of civil rights leader Dr. Ralph Bunche, was a native of South Carolina, his mother has been described as Native American (Sioux).

K. P. Yohannan

During his early years in Dallas, Texas, Yohannan became an ordained clergyman and served as a pastor of a Native American Southern Baptist church for four years.

Kamiakin Junior High School

The school is named after Kamiakin, a chief of the Yakama Tribe in the 19th century and a leader of the American Indian side in the Yakima War.

Little Bay de Noc

The bay's name comes from the Noquet (or Noc) Native American people (thought to have been related to the Menominee of the Algonquian language group), who once lived along the shores.

Mark Farner

During the concert in Hankinson, North Dakota, a special presentation was held honoring Mark's Native ancestry and his contributions.

Marvin Rainwater

He was known for wearing Native American-themed outfits on stage and was 25 percent Cherokee.

Matthew B. Juan

Mathew B. Juan (April 22, 1892 – May 28, 1918) was a Native American hero of World War I who died in the Battle of Cantigny.

Michael Levadoux

After the death of Dufaux, M. Levadoux had frequent occasion to minister to the spiritual wants of the Native Americans and of other scattered Catholics from Sandusky and Mackinaw to Fort Wayne.

Mist, Oregon

The Nehalem River valley widens between Mist and Jewell, and was favored by the Native American tribes of the area for hunting; it was later favored by early European American settlers for agriculture.

Mohave people

Mohave or Mojave (Mojave: 'Aha Makhav) are a Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert.

Montana City, Montana

As early as 9,000 BCE, Native Americans came to Montana City to collect chert, a rock similar to flint which was used to make spear tips, arrowheads, and knives.

Native News Today

It looks at various events happening throughout Indian Country from an Indian perspective and also endeavors to show some of the good that Native Americans and Indian Tribes are doing throughout their areas.

Odell Borg

Odell Borg, of Native American (Ojibwe) and German heritage, currently living in Patagonia, Arizona, is a Native American flutist and flute maker.

Park County, Wyoming

95.6% were White, 0.6% Native American, 0.6% Asian, 0.2% Black or African American, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.4% of some other race and 1.6% of two or more races.

Princess Winona

Princess Winona (Princess We-Noh-Nah) is the central Native American character in a "Lover's Leap" romantic legend set at Maiden Rock on the Wisconsin side of Lake Pepin in the United States.

Scott County, Virginia

97.9% were White, 0.6% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.4% of some other race and 0.7 of two or more races.

Tipton, Indiana

Tipton Schools counts 1,851 students in K-12, with 97% being Caucasian, and the remaining 3% either African-American, Hispanic, Native American, Indian, or multiracial.

Vera Francis

Vera J. Francis is an American Indian educator, environmental activist, and community planner for the Passamaquoddy people.

Wauna, Oregon

According to Oregon Geographic Names, it names a Native American mythological being associated with the Columbia River.

Zaniolepis

Z. frenata is known to have been a source of food to the Native American inhabitants of San Nicolas Island off the coast of southern California, USA during the Pleistocene.