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• Apache
Apache is the collective name for several culturally related tribes. Jicarilla refers to an Apache people currently living in New Mexico and speak a Southern Athabaskan language. The term jicarilla comes from Mexican Spanish meaning 'little basket'.
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• Caddo
The Caddo tribe, formerly widespread in the southern United States, now resides mainly in Texas. |
• Cherokee
The Cherokee language is of the Iroquoian family, most closely related to Seneca, Mohawk, and Oneida. Still spoken by thousands of people, the large majority lives near the town of Tahlequah in northeastern Oklahoma. About a thousand speakers live in western North Carolina, on a reservation near the town of Cherokee. |
• Cheyenne
North American Indians of the Algongian family approximately 1,500 is divided between Oklahoma and Montana. |
• Chickasaw
The Chickasaw Indians lived originally in Mississippi, just north of the Choctaws, to whom the are linguistically related. About 1830 they were moved to what is now Oklahoma. Most of them live near the town of Ardmore, in the southernmost part of the state. Chickasaw belongs to the Muskogean family. |
• Choctaw
The Choctaw language belongs to the Muskogean linguistic family of languages which also includes the Creek and Chickasaw who were the Choctaw's neighbors in both Mississippi and later in Oklahoma, then known as the Indian Territory.
Oklahoma, where the Choctaw Nation is now located, is actually two Choctaw words: olka "people" and homma meaning "red" named by Choctaw Chief allen Wright in 1866. The Tribal Headquarters today is Durant, Oklahoma. The Mississippi Band is in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Choctaws come together twice a year for festivals held in both Mississippi and Oklahoma. |
• Hawaiian
Hawaiian is the indigenous language of the Hawaiian Islands. A member of the Polynesian family, it was brought to Hawaii from the Society Islands, 2,500 miles to the south between the 5th and 8th centuries.
Until well into the 19th century Hawaiian was still the everyday language of most of the islands' natives. But the steadily increasing American influence led to a wholesale shift to English within only a couple of generations.
Hawaiian is considered one of the most musical languages in the world. Perhaps the best known Hawaiian word is "aloha", meaning "love" or "affection" but also used both for "hello" and "goodbye". |
• Iñupiaq
The Inupiat or Iñupiaq (from inuit- people - and piaq/t real, i.e. 'real people') are the Inuit people of Alaska's Northwest Arctic and North Slope boroughs and the Bering Straits region. Barrow, the northernmost city in the United States, is in the Inupiat region.
Inupiat people continue to rely heavily on subsistence hunting and fishing, including whaling. In recent years the exploitation of oil and other resources has been an important revenue source for the Inupiat. Inupiat people have grown more concerned in recent years that climate change is threatening their traditional lifestyle. Inupiaq groups often have a name ending in "miut."
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• Kiowa
The Kiowa, numbering about 1,000, live mostly in Oklahoma. Their language is of the Uto-Aztecan group, related to Hopi, Shoshone, Comanche, and Nahuatl. |
• Lakota
The term Sioux refers to people of similar ethnic backgrounds, and includes Lakota speakers (the most numerous) as well as Dakota and Nakota speakers. |
• Lenape
The homeland of the Lenape people was all of what is now New Jersey, the northern portion of Delaware, the eastern part of Pennsylvania and the south-eastern portion of New York. |
• Mohawk
The Mohawks, easternmost of the Five Nations that formed the League of the Iroquois, originally lived in what is now upper New York State. Today the largest concentration of Mohawks is on the St. Regis Indian Reservation in New York. A few hundred more live in Ontario and Quebec. |
• Muskogee (Creek)
The Creek Indians lived originally in Georgia and Alabama. Frequent clashes with white settlers eventually led to the Creek War of 1813-14, in which the Creeks were decisively defeated and forced to cede more than half their land to the United States. In the 1830s they were forced to move to Oklahoma, where today they number about 15,000. Probably not more than 4,000 still speak the Creek language, which is closely related to Seminole. |
• Navajo
The Navajo, numbering about 150,000, are the largest Indian tribe in the United States, and mostly live in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. They are an offshoot of the Apache, believed to have migrated from Canada to the American Southwest about 1,000 years ago. The Navajo language is of the Athabaskan family. |
• Ojibwe
Ojibwe, also known as Ojibwa, Ojibway, and Chippewa, is spoken in Canada (Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan) and the United States (Michigan, Wisconsin, Minneosta, and North Dakota). Ojibwe belogs to the Algonkian language family. |
• Passamaquoddy
Passamaquoddy and its close relative Maliseet are spoken today by about 1,000 people, mostly in New England. Passamaquoddy is an Algonkian language, related to Cree, Ojibwe, Cheyenne, and Delaware. |
• Salish
The Salish language is spoken today principally in British Columbia. |
• Tanacross Athabascan
Tanacross is the ancestral language of the Mansfield-Ketchumstuk and Healy Lake-Joseph Village bands of Athabaskan people, whose ancestral territory encompassed an area bounded by the Goodpaster River to the west, the Alaska Range to the south, the Fortymile and Tok rivers to the east, and the Yukon Uplands to the north. The name Tanacross has only recently been applied to the language and still has limited currency outside academic circles. Some people use the term Tanacross language, but only in a restricted sense referring to the language of Tanacross village proper. Tanacross is part of a large language/dialect complex, and the Tanacross linguistic region is bordered by several other closely related Athabaskan languages. The Tanacross linguistic region is geographically small by Alaska Athabaskan standards and hence contains little dialectal variation. |
• Tlingit
The Tlingit Indians live in the Alaskan Panhandle, in and around the cities of Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan, as well as on a number os islands in the Alexander Archipelago. Their language shows a number of similarities with those of the Athabaskan family, but its exact linguistic classification remains uncertain. |
• Western Delaware
In early colonial times the Delaware Indians inhabited the Delaware Valley, in what is now New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Beginning about 1720 they were gradually driven westward, first by the hostile Iroquois, then by the white settlers. Today they number less than a thousand, most of whom live in Oklahoma. Their language is of the Algonkian family. |
• Yup`ik
The five Yupik languages (related to Inuktitut) are still very widely spoken, with more than 75% of the Yupik/Yup'ik population fluent in the language. Alaskan and Siberian Yupik, like the Alaskan Inupiat, adopted the system of writing developed by Moravian missionaries during the 1760s in Greenland. The Alaskan Yupik and Inupiat are the only Northern indigenous peoples to have developed their own system of hieroglyphics, a system that died with its inventors. Through a confusion among Russian explorers in the 1800s, the Yupik people bordering the territory of the unrelated Aleuts were erroneously called Aleuts, or Alutiiq, in Yupik. This term has remained in use to the present day, along with another term, Sugpiaq, which both refer to the Yupik of Southcentral Alaska and Kodiak. |
• Indians of North America video series
This highly-rated video series, ideal for junior and senior high schools and public libraries, portrays the history and culture of particular Indian communities. Each program contains commentary from leading Native American scholars and contemporary tribal members. The film footage is enhanced with drawings, portraits, and maps that vividly depict the locale, past and present, of the tribal groups. The discussions in each 30-minute video cover the stereotypical myths about the particular tribal group, its traditions and values, its spiritual relationship to the environment, the position and status of women in the tribal society, and the role of government vis-à-vis the tribal group. |
• Famous Indians — Biographies on Video
Carefully-researched videos from the televised Biography series. Each VHS video is 50 minutes long. |
• Native American T-Shirt
Exclusive Audio-Forum design features Native American "greetings" on the front of the shirt, with corresponding "farewells" on the back. Languages: Apache, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Kiowa, Lakota, Lenape, Mohawk, Navajo, Ojibwe, Passamaquoddy, Salish, Tlingit, and Yup'ik. 100% top-quality cotton, beige, printed in red, white, and black. Available in medium, large, and extra large (men's sizing). |
• Audio Documentaries of American Indians
Historic recordings from the 1960s and 1970s. |
• Multi-Tribal & General audio and video programs and books
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