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Tom Cole, Chickasaw Nation, Congressman from Oklahoma. Charles Curtis, ( Kaw / Osage / Prairie Band Potawatomi) U.S. Senator and 31st Vice President of the United States. Sharice Davids, Ho-Chunk, U.S. Representative from Kansas. Affie Burnside Ellis, Navajo, first Native American to serve in the Wyoming Senate.
The Navajo[ a] are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States . With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members as of 2021, [ 1][ 4] the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country. The reservation straddles the Four ...
Shoshone, Timbisha, and other Numic peoples. The Comanche / kəˈmæntʃi / or Nʉmʉnʉʉ ( Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people" [ 4]) is a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in Lawton, Oklahoma.
Titles II through VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 comprise the Indian Civil Rights Act, which applies to the Native American tribes of the United States and makes many but not all of the guarantees of the U.S. Bill of Rights applicable within the tribes (that Act appears today in Title 25, sections 1301 to 1303 of the United States Code). [14]
The Great Sioux War of 1876, also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations that occurred in 1876 and 1877 between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and the United States. The cause of the war was the desire of the U.S. government to obtain ownership of the Black Hills.
Ute ( / ˈjuːt /) are the indigenous, or Native American people, of the Ute tribe and culture among the Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin. They had lived in sovereignty for several hundred years in the regions of present-day Utah and Colorado . In addition to their ancestral lands within Colorado and Utah, their historic hunting grounds ...
This category has the following 31 subcategories, out of 31 total. Extinct Native American tribes (1 C, 97 P) Native American people by tribe (132 C) Native American tribes by state (50 C) Terminated Native American tribes (6 P) Unrecognized tribes in the United States (5 C, 57 P)
The Pawnee are a Central Plains Indian tribe that historically lived in Nebraska and northern Kansas but today are based in Oklahoma. [ 1] They are the federally recognized Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, who are headquartered in Pawnee, Oklahoma. Their Pawnee language belongs to the Caddoan language family, and their name for themselves is Chatiks ...