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U.S. Native American Indian Tribes

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Reservations: Land Tenure and Federal Indian Law

September 19, 2025
Previous Views:  8,568 Reservation Economics With the establishment of reservations, tribal territories diminished to a fraction of original areas and indigenous customary practices of land tenure sustained only for a time, and not
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Reservation Beginnings

September 19, 2025
Previous Views: 17,220 In 1851, the United States Congress passed the Indian Appropriations Act which authorized the creation of Indian reservations in modern day Oklahoma. Relations between settlers and natives had grown increasingly
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Russell Means Obituary

January 27, 2021
Previous Views: 6,964 Russell C. Means, the charismatic Oglala Sioux who helped revive the warrior image of the American Indian in the 1970s with guerrilla-tactic protests that called attention to the nation’s history
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Reservation Poverty

September 19, 2025
Previous Hits: 10943 The quality of life on some reservations is comparable to that in many third world  countries, with issues of infant mortality, life expectancy, nutrition and poverty, and alcohol and drug abuse.
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Ellen Moves Camp Obituary

April 18, 2018
Ellen Moves Camp, known along with Gladys Bissonnette as the “Grandmas of the American Indian Movement (AIM),” passed April 5 at the age of 77 on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
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Theodore “Ted” Lyle Means Obituary

April 18, 2018
 A burial ceremony for Ted Means, 65, Lakota, who passed away last Wednesday in Rapid City, South Dakota will began today 9 am cst, at Sinte Gleska University Multi-Purpose Building on the
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Herbert (Herb) Powless Obituary

April 18, 2018
Herbert George Powless (Oneida) began his journey to the Creator’s land, on January 30, 2018. Herb was born on February 22, 1937, to Margaret (Stevens) Powless and Mark Powless. Herb joined the
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Native Tribes of the Great Lakes Region

July 8, 2023
Seventeen American Indian tribes originated around the Great Lakes Region, and later migrated to other areas. Here is a summary of those tribes. Meaning of the tribal name is in brackets, where
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