native american indian tribes of the US & Canada    | Add us to your Favorites |      | Shop
Art | Arts & Crafts | Craft Supplies | Clothing |Figurines | Jewelry | Home Decor | Knives | New Products | On Sale! | Closeouts
native americans pets and north american wildlife - us  indian tribes native americans alaska natives - alaskan villages Canada First Nations U.S. Indian Tribes ancient indian civilizations native american genealogy native american posters and art prints native american catalog online
aboriginal people of north america native people of north america - free pictures native american art native american directory
american indian legends
   Celebrating native american indian tribes of the US and Canada
Shop for native american artifact replicas
Shop for mosaic stone jewelry
 Native American Home |InfoWizzard |New Site | All Categories | Articles Master List | Topics Site Map |What's New |Mail Bag

Over 2,000 articles about native americans of the US and Canada First Nations.


Submit your own articles about american indians without knowing any HTML here
 Are you ready?
Today's Top Story:
What is a good way for a tourist to experience native american culture?
New in the Gallery
Check out the new 3 Day in store specials. We are adding new items daily:
Native American Tribes by States Poster
Native American Tribes by States Poster

Rainbow inlaid stone earrings
15 Soon to be Discontinued 2009 fringed jacket styles up to $40 off for the next 3 days, only! Starting as low as $119.95.


Colorful inlaid stone bracelets
15 New Belt Buckle designs just in!


New line of turquoise fashion jewelry
New line of fashion jewelry

Sterling silver rings up to 1/2 off
Many sterling silver rings up to 1/2 off!

new horse t-shirt designs
38 new horse t-shirt designs.


native american t-shirts and gifts
56 new native american T-shirt designs for more than 50 different tribes.

Your transactions in our store are secure


Official PayPal Seal
Survey
Should Leonard Peltier be paroled?

Yes, certainly.
Hell no!
Who is Leonard Peltier?



Results
Polls

Votes 1268
New Navigation
(New Site Design in Progress)
New Navigation
(New Site Design in Progress)
US Tribes
Canadian First Nations
Shopping
Random Headlines

Indian Lodges
[ Indian Lodges ]

·Navajo inventor and family to get 'Makeover' home
·Wigwams are domed shelters
·Indian Housing - Wickiups
·Wattle and Daub Indian Houses
·Tipis are cone shaped tents
·Pueblos are the apartment like buildings
·Some Pacific Northwest coast indians lived in plank houses
·Pithouses are semisubterranean dwellings
·Igloos were not year around homes
Who is Online
There are currently, 264 guest(s) and 0 member(s) that are online.

You are Anonymous user. You can register for free by clicking here
indian tribeSite Sections
indian tribesShopping
indian tribesActivism &
indian tribesIssues
indian tribesAlaskan Natives
indian tribesAncient Cultures
indian tribesBlood Quantum
indian tribesIndian Dances
indian tribesFirst Nations
indian tribesNA Genealogy
indian tribesFree Pictures
indian tribesNA Poems
indian tribesNA Posters
indian tribesTribal Locations indian tribesMap
indian tribesUS Tribes

Guests
Login/Join
indian tribesYou are an Anonymous user. Anonymous users are not allowed to post stories or leave comments. You can register for FREE.Members have access to more features.
indian tribeSite Info
indian tribesAdd URL
indian tribesContact Us
indian tribesFAQs
indian tribesMail Bag
indian tribesRecommend Us
indian tribesShopping
indian tribesSite Info Index
indian tribesSurveys
indian tribesTop 100 Lists
indian tribesWeb Directory
indian tribesWhat's New

Link Partners
All Horse Breeds
art & artists
birth defect info
beauty & makeup
california indians
dog breeds
flowers and gardening
greek mythology
health & diets
holiday ideas
Hot Hair Styles
learn the web
pets and wildlife
Hill genealogy
Spirit Guides

Click here to buy Sale Posters!
Click here to buy Sale Posters!
Recent Articles
Saturday, January 24
· Pope's remarks whitewashed the genocide of Indigenous Proples
· Independent Indigenous Sovereign Nations
· Sovereignty
· Border Crossing Rights-kids poem-teacher tool
· 2008 Lakota Dakota Nakota Language Summit is a Huge Success!
· scholarships for native american students
· native american school grants
· native american student loans
Tuesday, January 20
· Eleven tribes participating in Pesident Obama's inaugural parade
Monday, December 22
· Is this earring an authentic Mohican design?

Older Articles
Today's Featured Category

Native Music
[ Native Music ]

·First Zion Canyon Native Flute School
·Standing Horse wins Powwow Idol contest
·Jazz legend Hampton had bond with Nez Perce
·Indigo Girls to give 'Honor Our Earth' benefit concert at Shiprock
·Introducing N8V native hard rock band
·'Sacred Ground' takes home Native American GRAMMY
·FREDERICK P. WHITEFACE (1922-2002)
·Blood quantum song lyrics
·How to make a quality hand drum
Privacy Policy
We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit networkadvertising.org. Read our full Privacy Policy.
Videos of the Week
Shoshone-Bannock History in Idaho
PART I OF II: 2008's historic Idaho Democratic Convention, held in Boise, ID, June 12-14, invited Idaho Native American Tribal members from the Shoshone-Bannock/Fort Hall, Shoshone-Paiute/Duck Valley, Nez Perce, and Coeur D'Alene tribal communities to take an active part in the convention activities. On June 12th, the Idaho AFL-CIO hosted a Democratic picnic for convention goers. Mr. Ted Howard, Cultural Resource Director, Duck Valley, spoke to picnic participants about the Shoshone-Paiute-Bannock history in the Boise Valley area. 9:49 minutes.

Part II-Grand Entry, Flag Ceremony and Recessional
All convention tribal members participated in the grand entry at the beginning of the June 13th Idaho Democratic Convention gathering followed by a flag ceremony and presentation by Mr. Lee Juan Tyler, Council Member, Shoshone-Bannock/Fort Hall community. Fort Hall and Duck Valley singers and drummers played songs for the grand entry, flag ceremony and recessional.
9:59 minutes


Native American Prophecy
Narrated by the late Floyd RedCrow Westerman 6:36 minutes

7 Generations
Elder Orin Lyons talks about preparing for the next 7 generations. 8:43 minutes


Custom Search
 MailBag Archive: How did the Lytton Indians get their name?
Posted on Sunday, January 07 @ 01:40:48 CST
Question:
Why are the Lytton Indians named as such? I am a Lytton and I am curious why these Indians were named after a very British surname.

--Submitted by James L.



StumbleUpon Toolbar Stumble It!

Answer:

There are two Indian tribes that bear the name Lytton, one in the United States and one in Canada.

The First Nation Lytton Band No. 705 is located at the confluence of the Fraser & Thompson Rivers in British Columbia, Canada. The Lytton First Nation speaks the Ntlakyapumuk language and is affiliated with the Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council.

Living along the banks of the Fraser River in southwestern British Columbia, the Nlaka'pamux people have had a long history of contact with non-Aboriginal peoples. In 1808 they hosted Simon Fraser as an overnight guest. Later they watched as fur traders searched for transport routes through the mountains of the Fraser Canyon, and saw miners, settlers, and merchants flood into their country during and after the gold rush. Since then, the Nlaka'pamux have found themselves in the path of the Cariboo Road, the Canadian Pacific Railway, and virtually every other commercial and province-building initiative undertaken in the region.

The original site of the community was called "Chamin", meaning either "cross mouth" (referring to crossing the mouth of the Thompson River), or "shelf that crosses over". On November 11, 1858, Governor Douglas named the settlement after Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Secretary of State for the Colonies. The reserve land was allotted by Commissioner O'Reilly on August 24, 1881.

The Lytton Band of Pomo Indians are located in California, USA. Captain William H. Litton, who developed the property now know as the Salvation Army's Lytton Adult Rehabilitation Center, on Lytton Springs Road, acquired a large tract of land in 1860 that extended from the southernmost boundaries of Geyserville to the northern limits of the fledgling town of Healdsburg, California with the Russian River serving as is eastern boundary. This property was originally part of the Sotoyome Rancho land grant. He built a resort hotel on grounds that contained medicinal mineral springs and it soon became known as "Litton Springs" or "Litton Station." It appears the name was changed in error by a draftsman or some other official on property records in 1896, and it has been spelled Lytton ever since.

In the late 1880s the Lytton Springs resort became a military academy for rich boys, and later a Pentecostal religious santuary. Pomo Indians who lived in this area became known as the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians.

The Pomos are not actually a tribe in the true sense, but a group of tribelets speaking similar languages and dialects. As with most California Indians, the smashing of the Pomos' culture by conquest was very complete. Because of this, their culture has often been misunderstood.

The Pomo society had some quite complex and beautiful elements, like an elaborate counting system. Their money was manufactured with exquisite care. The Pomo Indians probably made the finest feathered basket-work ever produced by man, which today have become increasingly rare collector's items, in addition to very beautiful and complicated dance costumes.

There remains a total of two hundred members in the Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians, the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians and the Lytton Indian Community of California. The Lytton band of Pomo Indians is without a land base as a consequence of Termination. This band's status was reinstated and finallly received Federal Recognition on September 6, 1991.

Other bands of Pomo Indians include the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians of California, Elem Indian Colony of Pomo Indians of the Sulphur Bank Rancheria, Manchester Band of Pomo Indians of the Manchester-Point Arena Rancheria, Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point Rancheria, Dry Creek Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California, and the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians of the Hopland Rancheria.

RELATED ARTICLES ON OUR WEB SITE:
Fraser Canyon Histories, 1808-1939
Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians of California
Elem Indian Colony of Pomo Indians of the Sulphur Bank Rancheria
Dry Creek Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California

LINKS OF THE WEEK:
The Lytton Genealogy Study Group
California Missions
Pomo Indians
California Indian Museum



50



 
New Navigation
(New Site Design in Progress)
US Tribes
Canadian First Nations
Shopping

Related Links
· More about MailBag
· News by aaanativearts


Most read story about MailBag:
How do native americans celebrate Christmas?

Article Rating
Average Score: 3
Votes: 2


Please take a second and vote for this article:

Excellent
Very Good
Good
Regular
Bad

Options

 Printer Friendly Printer Friendly

News ©





©1999 - AAA Native Arts


Website Ranking

Website Designed by: Mazaska Web Design
Hosted by: HostIt4You.com



file: 1390 How did the Lytton Indians get their name?