U.S. Native American Indian Tribes
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Red Cloud’s last words to his people
September 16, 2025
Red Cloud gave this farewell address to the Lakota people on July 4, 1903, as he anticipated death approaching.
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What is the meaning of the words Wha-she-sho-wee-ko?
January 25, 2021
Question: Would you know the meaning of the words Wha-she-sho-wee-ko? A Lakota Souix I know said it meant crazy white man. But someone else said complete idiot. I’m beginning to think the
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Population of Indians on the rise, Utah’s percentage exceeds U.S. average
April 23, 2018
Utah is among 19 states in which the American Indian population exceeds the U.S. proportion of 1.5 percent, and among four Southwestern states in which American Indians make up the majority of
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Phoenix is 1st in share of Indians among top 10 cities in the nation
August 6, 2019
Phoenix has the highest proportion of American Indians among the top 10 cities in the nation. But increasing urbanization doesn’t necessarily mean Indians are losing touch with their ancestral homelands and cultures,
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Carter Camp Obituary
April 23, 2018
Carter Camp, Ponca (August 18, 1941 – December 27, 2013) was an American Indian Movement activist. Camp played a leading role in the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties that traveled to Washington, DC, where protesters took over the
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Yurok Religious Beliefs and Burial Customs
July 10, 2023
Yurok myths ascribed creation to Wohpekumew, “widower across the ocean.” Their world was thought to float on water, and, as Kroeber related, “at the head of the river in the sky, where
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Frank Blackhorse
September 14, 2025
Frank Blackhorse (Francis DeLuca, Frank Leonard Deluca, Cherokee) is one of several aliases used by a member of the American Indian Movement. He is perhaps best known for his participation in the Wounded Knee incident, particularly
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Edgar Bear Runner, Oglala Sioux
September 13, 2025
Edgar Bear Runner, Oglala Lakota (May 28 1951 – ) was born in Porcupine, South Dakota, to mother Winnifred “Winni” Alice Janis and father Oscar Bear Runner. Bear Runner was in his early 20s during Wounded
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Wesley Bad Heart Bull
September 13, 2025
Just one month before the Wounded Knee siege, Wesley Bad Heart Bull, Oglala Sioux, (June 10, 1952-January 27, 1973) was the victim of a murder in which Darrell Schmitz stabbed Bad Heart Bull to
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Clyde Bellecourt, Cofounder of AIM
September 13, 2025
Clyde Bellecourt or Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun which means “Thunder Before the Storm.” White Earth Ojibwe (born May 8, 1936) was a cofounder of AIM in 1968. He was the group’s first chairman. He continues to direct national and international AIM
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