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The Little People of the Pryor Mountains (known as Nirumbee[1] or Awwakkulé[2] in the Crow language) are a race of ferocious dwarfs in the folklore of the Crow Tribe, a Native American tribe. [3][4] The Little People were also seen as imparting spiritual wisdom, and played a major role in shaping the destiny of the Crow People through the ...
The Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada speak the Tlingit language (Lingít [ɬɪ̀nkítʰ]), [ 5 ] which is a branch of the Na-Dené language family. Lingít has a complex grammar and sound system and also uses certain phonemes unheard in almost any other language. [ 25 ] Tlingit has an estimated 200 to 400 native speakers in ...
The Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANS) was created in 1915. [30] Also in 1915, the Alaska Territorial legislature passed a law allowing Alaskan Natives the right to vote – but on the condition that they give up their cultural customs and traditions. [31] The Indian Citizenship Act, passed in 1924, gave all Native Americans United States ...
Ahtna. The Ahtna (also Ahtena, Atna, Ahtna-kohtaene, or Copper River) are an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. The people's homeland called Atna Nenn', is located in the Copper River area of southern Alaska, and the name Ahtna derives from the local name for the Copper River.
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 explains how these Alaska Native villages came to be tracked this way. This version was updated based on Federal Register, Volume 87, dated January 28, 2022 (87 FR 4638), [1] when the number of Alaskan Native tribes entities totaled 231.
A Summary of Kinship Forms and Terminologies Found Among the Inupiaq Speaking People of Alaska. 1950. Sprott, Julie E. Raising Young Children in an Alaskan Iñupiaq Village; The Family, Cultural, and Village Environment of Rearing. West, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 2002. ISBN 0-313-01347-0; Chance, Norman A. The Eskimo of North Alaska.
The Bad River LaPointe Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians or Bad River Tribe for short (Ojibwe: Mashkii ziibii) [2] are a federally recognized tribe of Ojibwe people. The tribe had 6,945 members as of 2010. [1] The Bad River Reservation is located on the south shore of Lake Superior and has a land area of about 193.11 square ...
The Red Cliff Reservation is located on the shore of Lake Superior in the Town of Russell and the Town of Bayfield, north and northwest of the city of Bayfield, Wisconsin. The band's administrative headquarters are in Red Cliff. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the reservation had a total area of 22.08 square miles (57.2 km 2) in 2020.