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| x Potatuck |
The Potatuck were an aboriginal tribe that existed during and prior to colonial times in Western Connecticut, USA eventually amalgamating with Weantinock and other indigenous people to form Schaghticokes in Western Connecticut.
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| x Ho-Chunk |
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The Ho-Chunk, or Winnebago (as they are commonly called), are a tribe of Native Americans, native to what are now Wisconsin and Illinois.
The term "Winnebago" originally came from a name given to them by neighboring Algonquian tribes: the Fox, Sauk,...
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The Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ) are a Native American people from the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia, the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee). Linguistically, they are connected to speakers of the Iroquoian language family.
In the 19th century, the...
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The Iroquois (pronounced /ˈɪrəkwɑː/), also known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse", are an indigenous people of North America. In the 16th century or earlier, the Iroquois came together in an association known as the Iroquois...
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| x Apache |
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Apache (pronounced /əˈpætʃiː/) is the collective term for several culturally related groups of Native Americans in the United States originally from the American Southwest. These indigenous peoples of North America speak a Southern Athabaskan ...
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| x Sioux |
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Sioux (pronounced /suː/) are a Native American and First Nations people. The term can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or any of the nation's many dialects. The Sioux comprise three major divisions based on dialect and...
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| x Navajo people |
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The Navajo or Diné of the Southwestern United States are the second largest Native American tribe of Northern America. In the 2000 U.S. census, 298,197 people claimed to be fully or partly of Navajo ancestry. The Navajo Nation constitutes an...
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| x Rappahannock Tribe |
The Rappahannock are a tribe of Native Americans.
In 1607, the Rappahannock were the dominant tribe of the Rappahannock River valley, maintaining thirteen villages along the north and south banks of the river named after them. Their capital town was...
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| x Chemehuevi |
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The Chemehuevi are a Native American tribe who presently live with the Mohave in and near the Colorado River Reservation in Arizona. The tribe also lives with the Paiutes on various California reservations. "Chemehuevi" is a Mojave name applied to...
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| x Quechan |
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The Quechan (also Yuma, Yuman, Kwtsan, Kwtsaan) are a Native American tribe who live on the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation on the lower Colorado River in Arizona just north of the border with Mexico. The Quechan are one of the Yuman tribes. Yuman is...
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| x Yuman |
The Yuman people are a group of Native American ethnic groups of the Yuman-Cochimí language family. The historic Yuman-speaking peoples in this region were skilled warriors and active traders, maintaining exchange networks with the Pima in southern...
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| x Chumash |
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The "Chumash" are Native American people who historically inhabit chiefly central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what is now San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties, extending from Morro Bay in...
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| x Paiute |
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Bridgeport Indian Reservation |
Paiute (pronounced /ˈpaɪjuːt/, sometimes written Piute) refers to two related groups of Native Americans — the Northern Paiute of California, Nevada and Oregon, and the Southern Paiute of Arizona, southeastern California and Nevada, and Utah. The...
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| x Ohlone |
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The Ohlone people, also known as the Costanoan, are the indigenous people of Northern California who occupy the areas around San Francisco Bay, Monterey Bay, and the lower Salinas Valley when the Spanish arrived in the late-18th century. At that...
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The Modoc tribe is a group of Native American people who originally lived in the area which is now northeastern California and central Southern Oregon. They are currently divided between Oregon and Oklahoma. The latter are a federally-recognized...
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The Yana people were a group of Native Americans indigenous to Northern California in the central Sierra Nevada Mountains, on the western side of the range. The Yana people comprised four groups: the Northern Yana, the Central Yana, the Southern...
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| x Casson |
Cassons or Casson is the name of a Yokut Native American tribe in central eastern California. The Cassons are also called the Gashowu. The Casson Yokut territory extended from the eastern side of San Joaquin Valley floor eastward to the upper...
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| x Chimariko |
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The Chimariko were a Native American group living primarily in a narrow, 20-mile section of canyon on the Trinity River in Trinity County in northwestern California.
The Chimariko were profoundly affected by the destructive practices of gold seekers...
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| x Valley and Sierra Miwok |
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The Plains and Sierra Miwok (the Miwok of the Sacramento Valley and the Sierra Mountains), were the largest group of Miwok Native American people. They lived in Northern California on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains between the...
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| x Lake Miwok |
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The Lake Miwok were a branch of the Miwok a Native American people of Northern California. The Lake Miwok lived in the Clear Lake basin of what is now called Lake County.
The Lake Miwok spoke their own Lake language in the Utian linguistic group....
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| x Kitanemuk |
The Kitanemuk were a Native American people who lived in the Tehachapi Mountains and the western Mojave Desert of southern California.
The Kitanemuk spoke a Uto-Aztecan language, probably akin to that of the Takic branch and to the Serrano language...
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| x Tolowa |
The Tolowa are a tribe of Native Americans, who still resides in their traditional territiories in Northwestern California and southern Oregon. Tolowa are members of the federally recognized Smith River Rancheria, Elk Valley Rancheria, Confederated...
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| x Tubatulabal |
The Tübatulabal (English pronunciation: /təˈbɑːtələbɑːl/, like "to bottle a ball") are Native Americans whose ancestral home was in the Kern River basin, in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains of California.
The Tübatulabal spoke an isolated Uto...
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| x Chalon |
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The Chalon are one of eight divisions of the Ohlone (Costanoan) people of Native Americans who lived in Northern California. Chalon (also called Soledad) is also the name of their spoken language, listed as one of the Ohlone (alias Costanoan)...
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| x Tataviam |
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The Tataviam which means "people facing the sun", also sometimes called the Alliklik which is also a derogatory term used by other tribes, are a Native American group in southern California. They traditionally occupied an area lying primarily in the...
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| x Halchidhoma |
The Halchidhoma (Halchidhoma: Xalchidom) are an Indian tribe now living mostly on the Salt River reservation, but formerly native to the area along the lower Colorado River in California and Arizona when first contacted by Europeans. In the early...
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| x Juaneño |
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The Juaneño or Acagchemem are a Native American group from Southern California. The Juaneño lived in what is now part of Orange and San Diego Counties and received their Spanish name from the priests of the California mission chain due to their...
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| x Awaswas |
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The Awaswas people (also known as Santa Cruz) are one of eight divisions of the Ohlone (Costanoan) Native Americans of Northern California. The Awaswas lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains and along the coast of present-day Santa Cruz County from...
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| x Tamyen |
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The Tamyen (also spelled as Tamien, Thamien) are one of eight linguistic divisions of the Ohlone (Coastanoan) people groups of Native Americans who lived in Northern California. The Tamyen lived throughout the Santa Clara Valley. The use of the name...
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| x Chochenyo |
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The Chochenyo (also called Chocheño, Chocenyo) are one of the divisions of the indigenous Ohlone (Costanoan) people of Northern California. The Chochenyo resided on the east side of the San Francisco Bay (the "East Bay"), primarily in what is now...
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| x Elem Indian Colony |
The Elem Indian Colony of Pomo Indians (also known as the Elem Band of Pomo and Sulfur Bank Band of Pomo Indians) are a Native American band of Pomo based on 50 acres (200,000 m) near Clearlake Oaks, California on the northwest shore of Clear Lake....
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| x Nisenan |
The Nisenan, also known as the Southern Maidu and Valley Maidu, are one of many native groups of the Central Valley. The name Nisenan, derives from the ablative plural pronoun nisena·n, "from among us". Only a few members survive, and only a few who...
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| x Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California |
The Berry Creek Rancheria of Tyme Maidu Indians are a Native American people inhabiting a northeastern part California, south of Lassen Peak.
They are a federally recognized Maidu tribe, headquartered in Oroville in Butte County. Their reservation...
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| x Martis people |
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The Martis were a group of Native Americans who lived in Northern California on both the eastern and western sides of the Sierra Nevada during the period of 3,000 BC to 500 AD. Evidence of Martis habitation has been found from Carson River/Reno,...
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| x Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians |
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The Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians is a federally recognized Cahuilla band of Native Americans based in Coachella, California. They have the distinction of being the smallest tribal nation in the United States, consisting of only eight members,...
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| x Atsugewi |
The Atsugewi were Native Americans residing in what is now northern California, United States, in the vicinity of Mount Shasta, specifically the Pit River drainage on Burney, Hat, and Dixie Valley or Horse Creeks. They were closely related to the...
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| x Miwok |
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Miwok (also spelled Miwuk, Mi-Wuk, or Me-Wuk) can refer to any one of four linguistically-related groups of Native Americans, native to Northern California, who spoke one of the Miwokan languages in the Utian family. The word Miwok means people in...
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| x Ohlone, Southern Language |
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Rumsen (also known as Rumsien, San Carlos Costanoan and Carmeleno) is one of eight language divisions of the Ohlone (Coatanoan) Native American people of Northern California. The Rumsen language was spoken from the Pajaro River to Point Sur, and on...
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| x Wappo |
The Wappo are a group of Native Americans who traditionally lived in Northern California in the areas of Napa Valley, the south shore of Clear Lake, Alexander Valley, and Russian River. When Mexicans arrived to colonize California, Wappo villages...
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The Esselen were a Native American linguistic group in the hypothetical Hokan language family, who resided in what is now known as Big Sur in the Monterey Bay Area, California. Archaeological and linguistic evidence indicates that the original...
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| x Shoshone |
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The Shoshone ( [ʃoʊˈʃoʊni] (help·info) or [ʃəˈʃoʊni] (help·info)) are a Native American tribe in the United States with three large divisions: the Northern, the Western and the Eastern. The Shoshone were sometimes called the Snake by early White...
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The Maidu are a group of Native Americans who live in Northern California. They reside in the central Sierra Nevada, in the drainage area of the Feather and American Rivers. In Maiduan languages, Maidu means "person".
There are three subcategories...
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The Pima (or Akimel O'odham) are a group of American Indians living in an area consisting of what is now central and southern Arizona (USA) and Sonora (Mexico). The long name, "Akimel O'odham", means "river people". They are closely related to the...
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Wintun (also Wintuan, Wintoon) is the name generally given to a group of related Native American tribes who live in Northern California, including the Wintu, Nomlaki, Patwin and Southern Patwin tribes. Their range is from approximately present-day...
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| x Coast Miwok |
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The Coast Miwok were the second largest group of Miwok Native American people. The Coast Miwok inhabited the general area of modern Marin County and southern Sonoma County in Northern California, from the Golden Gate north to Duncans Point and...
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| x Bay Miwok |
The Bay Miwok were a cultural and linguistic group of Miwok a Native American people in Northern California who lived in Contra Costa County. They joined the Franciscan mission system during the early nineteenth century, suffered a devastating...
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| x Wintu |
The Wintu (also Northern Wintun) are Native Americans who live in what is now Northern California. They are part of a group of associated groups known collectively as Wintun (or Wintuan). The Wintu are viewed as part of the Penutian language family....
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| x Washoe people |
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The Washo are a Native American people who originally lived around Lake Tahoe and adjacent areas of the Great Basin. The name "Washo is derived from the autonym waashiw (wa·šiw) meaning "people from here" in the Washo language (transliterated in...
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| x Great Basin tribes |
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The Great Basin tribes of Native Americans occupied an area of some 400,000 mile² (1,000,000 km²), between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, in what is now Nevada, and parts of Oregon, California, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah. There is very...
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| x Achomawi |
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The Achomawi (also Achumawi, Ajumawi and Ahjumawi) were one of several bands of the Pit River tribe of Native Americans who lived in northeastern California, USA. They lived in the Fall River valley, Tule Lake and Pit River area near Montgomery...
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| x Kumeyaay |
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The Kumeyaay, also known as the Diegueño, are Native American people of the extreme southwestern United States and northwest Mexico. They live in the states of California (in the U.S.) and Baja California (in Mexico). In Spanish, the name is...
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| x Yuki tribe |
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The Yuki are a Native American tribe from the zone of Round Valley, in what today is part of the territory of Mendocino County, Northern California. Divisions of this tribe are thought to have settled as far south as Hood Mountain. In their language...
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The Salinan Native Americans lived in what is now the Central Coast of California, in the Salinas Valley. Said to have gone extinct by the Census of 1930, the Salinan Native Americans survived and are now in the process of applying for tribal...
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| x Winnemem Wintu |
The Winnemem Wintu ("middle river people" or "middle water people") are a band of the Native American Wintu tribe originally located along the lower McCloud River, above Shasta Dam near Redding, California.
The Winnemem are one of, what...
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| x Hupa |
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Hupa (Hoopa, Natinixwe) refers to a Native American tribe in northwestern California. The official name of the tribe is the Hoopa Valley Tribe.
Hupa are Native North Americans whose traditional land is Hupa Valley, California. Their heritage...
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| x Okwanuchu |
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The Okwanuchu were one of a number of small Shastan-speaking tribes of Native Americans in Northern California, who were closely related to the adjacent larger Shasta tribe. The Okwanuchu occupied territory south, southwest, and southeast of Mount...
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| x Western Shoshone |
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Western Shoshone comprises several Native American tribes that are indigenous to the Great Basin and have lands identified in the Treaty of Ruby Valley 1863. They resided in Idaho, Nevada, California, and Utah. The tribe is very closely related to...
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| x Mono tribe |
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The Mono are a Native American people who traditionally live in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains (generally south of Bridgeport, California) and adjacent areas of the Great Basin.
Throughout recorded history, the Mono have also been known as ...
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| x Karuk |
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Karuk (also Karok) is an indigenous people of California in the United States.
The tribal headquarters, located off State Route 96, is in the town of Happy Camp, California. Currently the tribe has three tribal board meeting places, in Yreka, Happy...
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| x Shasta |
The Shasta (or Chasta) are an indigenous people of Northern California and Southern Oregon in the United States. They spoke one of the Shastan languages.
The Shasta were originally located in the greater Shasta Valley area of Siskiyou County near...
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