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The Bureau of Indian Affairs defines Native American as having American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry. Legally, being Native American is defined as being enrolled in a federally recognized tribe or Alaskan village. These entities establish their own membership rules, and they vary. Each must be understood independently. Ethnologically ...
Flags of Wisconsin tribes in the Wisconsin state capitol. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [4] For Alaska Native tribes, see list of Alaska Native tribal entities.
It includes Native American people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:Indigenous Canadian women This category exists only as a container category for other categories of women.
Native American woman at work. Life in society varies from tribe to tribe and region to region, but some general perspectives of women include that they "value being mothers and rearing healthy families; spiritually, they are considered to be extensions of the Spirit Mother and continuators of their people; socially, they serve as transmitters of cultural knowledge and caretakers of children ...
A tribal name is a name of an ethnic tribe —usually of ancient origin, which represented its self-identity.. Studies of Native American tribal names show that most had an original meaning comparable to "human," "people" "us"—the "tribal" name for itself was often the localized ethnic self-perception of the general word for "human being."
Native American women were at risk for rape whether they were enslaved or not; during the early colonial years, settlers were disproportionately male. They turned to Native women for sexual relationships. [38] Both Native American and African enslaved women suffered rape and sexual harassment by male slaveholders and other white men. [38]
The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...
Cora Reynolds Anderson (1882–1950), first Native American woman to secure a seat in a state legislature [10] Awashonks (fl. mid- to late 17th c.), chief of the Sakonett tribe [24] Lyda Conley (1874–1946), Wyandot activist and first Native American woman admitted to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court [25]