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 Learn more about Native American in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Mormon tradition holds that some Native Americans are descendants of the lost tribes of Israel.
The second immigration wave comprised the Athabascan people, including the ancestors of the Apachess and Navajos; the third wave consisted of the Inuits, the Yupiks, and the Aleuts, who may have come by sea over the Bering Strait.
The title was later purchased very cheaply by Massachusetts and sold off in the Phelps and Gorham Purchase and the Holland Purchase, after which by treaty, it became a part of New York State.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /n/na/native_american.html   (2081 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Swinomish Indians
A tribe of Salishan linguistic stock, closely connected with the Skagit.
They formerly held the territory about the mouth of the river Skagit together with the adjacent portion of Whidbey Island, and are now gathered upon a reservation in the same territory, near Mount Vernon, Skagit County, north-western Washington.
They were missionized about 1850, by Father Casimir Chirouse and the Oblates; Skagit the entire tribe, to the number of 267 in 1910, is now civilized and Catholic.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14357b.htm   (143 words)

  
 Links to Federally Recognized Native American Indian Tribes
A brief historical summary of the Chickasaw a Native North American tribe of the Muskogean linguistic family, closely related to the Choctaw, from the Encarta Encyclopedia.
Tribe of the Yerington Colony and Campbell Ranch, Nevada
The listed entities are acknowledged to have "the immunities and privileges available to other federally acknowledged Indian tribes by virtue of their government-to-government relationship with the United States as well as the responsibilities, powers, limitations and obligations of such tribes." 25 CFR 83.2 (1996 ed.).
www.healing-arts.org /tribelinks.htm   (5839 words)

  
 HistoryLink Encyclopedia Search Results
Vi Hilbert, a member of the Upper Skagit tribe, has as her life's work to preserve the Lushootseed (Puget Salish) language and culture.
She generously shares Lushootseed language, stories, and traditions with organizations such as the Burke Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, United Indians of All Tribes, Tillicum Village, Seattle Storytellers Guild, and the National Storytelling Association.
It will be two years before settlers successfully establish themselves in the Puget Sound region away from the protection of the two Hudson's Bay Company farms at Nisqually and Cowlitz and the U.S. settlement in the Tumwater-Olympia area.
www.historylink.org /results.cfm?searchfield=sector&keyword=Northwest   (1943 words)

  
 Online Native American Indian Genealogy Records & Databases
Index to the Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory (Dawes)
The Five Civilized Tribes included in these records are: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek & Seminole; Delaware Indians who were adopted by the Cherokee are also included
Tracing Ancestors Among the Five Civilized Tribes by Rachal Mills Lennon
www.genealogybranches.com /nativeamericans.html   (594 words)

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