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Chippewa, indigenous people of North America
(Encyclopedia)Chippewa: see Ojibwa.Alabama, indigenous people of North America
(Encyclopedia)Alabama ăləbămˈə [key], indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). They lived in S Ala...Cherokee, indigenous people of North America
(Encyclopedia)Cherokee chĕrˈəkē [key], largest Native American group in the United States. Formerly the largest and most important tribe in the Southeast, they occupied mountain areas of North and South Carolin...Cheyenne, indigenous people of North America
(Encyclopedia)Cheyenne shīănˈ, –ĕnˈ [key], indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). The ...Seneca, indigenous people of North America
(Encyclopedia)Seneca, Native North Americans: see Iroquois Confederacy. ...Penobscot, indigenous people of North America
(Encyclopedia)Penobscot pənŏbˈskŏt [key], indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). They wer...Santee, indigenous people of North America
(Encyclopedia)Santee: see Sioux.Puyallup, indigenous people of North America
(Encyclopedia)Puyallup: see Coast Salish under Salish. ...Omaha, indigenous people of North America
(Encyclopedia)Omaha ōˈməhä, –hô [key], Native Americans whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). They, with the Ponca, migrated from t...Oneida, indigenous people of North America
(Encyclopedia)Oneida: see Iroquois Confederacy. ...Browse by Subject
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