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1875–1910. Rank. Deputy. Other work. MPD Police Officer. Bass Reeves (July 1838 – January 12, 1910) was a runaway slave, gunfighter, farmer, scout, tracker, railroad agent and deputy U.S. Marshal. He spoke and understood the languages of several Native American tribes including Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole and Creek.
Hiawatha. Hiawatha ( / ˌhaɪəˈwɒθə / HY-ə-WOTH-ə, also US: /- ˈwɔːθə / -WAW-thə: Haiëñ'wa'tha [hajẽʔwaʔtha] [1] ), also known as Ayenwatha or Aiionwatha, was a precolonial Native American leader and cofounder of the Iroquois Confederacy. He was a leader of the Onondaga people, the Mohawk people, or both.
The Great Peacemaker's name means 'Two River Currents Flowing Together'. Some of the numerous legends about the Great Peacemaker have conflicting information. It is reported that he was born a Huron, and by some accounts, his mother was a virgin, making the birth miraculous. [5] Others say he was born an Onondaga and later adopted by the Mohawk.
Their Algonquian -speaking neighbors (and competitors), the people of Muh-heck Haeek Ing ("food area place"), the Mohicans, referred to the people of Ka-nee-en Ka as Maw Unk Lin, meaning "bear people". The Dutch heard and wrote this term as Mohawk, and also referred to the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka as Egil or Maqua .
Black Indians (American Indian with African ancestry) Total population. True population unknown, 269,421 identified as ethnically mixed with African and Native American on 2010 census [ 1] Regions with significant populations. United States (especially the Southern United States or in locations populated by Southern descendants), Oklahoma, New ...
Crispus Attucks. Crispus Attucks ( c. 1723 – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent who is traditionally regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American killed in the American Revolution. [ 2][ 3][ 4] While he is widely remembered as ...
Face to Face. (photograph) Komulainen's 1990 photograph of Patrick Cloutier (left) and Brad Larocque (right) Face to Face is a photograph of Canadian Army soldier Patrick Cloutier and Ojibwe activist Brad Larocque staring each other down during the Oka Crisis. It was taken on September 1, 1990, by Shaney Komulainen, and has become one of Canada ...
v. t. e. Since the 1960s, the issue of Native American and First Nations names and images being used by sports teams as mascots has been the subject of increasing public controversy in the United States and Canada. This has been a period of rising Indigenous civil rights movements, and Native Americans and their supporters object to the use of ...