Portal:Indigenous peoples of North America

Welcome to the Indigenous peoples of North America portal Indigenous peoples of North America include the inhabitants of North America before the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th century, as well as many present-day ethnic groups who identify themselves with those historical peoples. In Canada, the most commonly preferred term for indigenous peoples is Aboriginal peoples. Of these Aboriginal peoples who are not Inuit or Métis, First Nations is the most commonly preferred term of self-identification. First Nations peoples make up approximately 3% of the Canadian population. The official term for First Nations people is Indian. (See also: Aboriginal peoples in Canada portal) Indigenous peoples in the United States are commonly called American Indians or Native Americans. American Indians make up 2% of the population, with more than 6 million people identifying themselves as Native Americans, although only 1.8 million are registered tribal members. Only a minority live on Indian reservations. Indigenous peoples of Mexico include many cultures—most numerous among them the Nahua people, the Maya peoples, and the Mixtec and Zapotec peoples. Indigenous people, defined primarily as people who speak one of the 62 Indigenous languages of Mexico, are estimated to make up around 9% of the Mexican population—about 10 million people. Indigenous-language Wikipedias: ᏣᎳᎩ (Cherokee)  · ᐃᔨᔫ (Cree)  · ᐃᓄᒃ (Inuktitut)  · Iñupiak  · Kalaallisut  · Nahuatlahtolli  · Dínék'ehjí (Navajo)  · Yucatec Maya  · Tsêhesenêstsestôtse (Cheyenne)    Selected article An igloo (Inuit language: iglu, Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᒡᓗ, "house", plural: iglooit or igluit) or snowhouse is a type of shelter built out of snow, originally built by the Inuit. Iglu is the Inuit word for a house or home built out of any material, and is not restricted exclusively to snowhouses, but includes traditional tents, sod houses, homes constructed of driftwood and modern buildings. Outside Inuit society, however, "igloo" refers exclusively to shelters constructed out of blocks of compacted snow, generally in the form of a dome. More...    Selected picture The Hupa (also known as Hoopa) are an Athabaskan tribe which inhabit northwestern California. Hupa are Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Athabascan linguistic stock. They believe that they lived in the Hoopa Valley for over 400,000 years, but their language suggests that they are relatively recent immigrants from what is now western Canada.    Categories ▼ Indigenous peoples of North America ► Aboriginal peoples in Canada ► Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean ► Indigenous peoples in Mexico ► Indigenous peoples in the United States ► Indigenous peoples of North America portal ► Assimilation of indigenous peoples of North America ► Eskimos ► First Nations ► History of indigenous peoples of North America ► Indigenous peoples of Aridoamerica ► Indigenous peoples of California ► Indigenous peoples of North America topics ► Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin ► Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau ► Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands ► Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic ► Indigenous universities and colleges in North America ► Mestizo ► Métis ► Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands ► Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest ► Plains tribes ► Siouan peoples ► Southwest tribes ► Indigenous peoples of North America biography stubs ► Indigenous peoples of North America stubs ► North America indigenous peoples templates ► WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America    Selected biography Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó (in Standard Lakota Orthography), literally "His-Horse-Is-Crazy" or "His-Horse-Is-Spirited" ; ca. 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota. He took up arms against the U.S. Federal government to fight against encroachments on the territories and way of life of the Lakota people, including leading a war party at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876. After surrendering to U.S. troops under General Crook in 1877, Crazy Horse was fatally wounded by a military guard while allegedly resisting imprisonment at Camp Robinson in present-day Nebraska. He ranks among the most notable and iconic of Native American tribal members and has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a 13¢ Great Americans series postage stamp. More...    Selected quote Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours. —Chief Joseph (1840–1904)    Did you know... ... that Wyandanch, the sachem of the Montaukett, in 1659, sued Jeremy Daily in the colonial court in one of the first trials in North America with an English defendant and a Native American plaintiff? ... that, during the territorial era of Minnesota in the U.S., Native Americans — who were otherwise disenfranchised — were often allowed to vote if they had worn trousers to the polling station? ...that underwater panthers were creatures appearing in the mythology of a number of Native American traditions, which combined the features of mountain lions or lynx with those of snakes, and were believed to inhabit the deepest parts of lakes and rivers?    Related portals Indigenous peoples of the Americas Aboriginal peoples in Canada    Related WikiProjects WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America    Topics · Nations, tribes and groups U.S. and Canada: Alabama • Algonquin • Anishinaabe • Apache • Apalachee • Appamattoc • Arapaho • Babine • Blackfoot • Cahuilla • Catawba • Cherokee • Cheyenne • Chichimeca • Chickahominy • Chickasaw • Chinookan • Chipewyan • Chiricahua • Choctaw • Chumash • Coeur d'Alene • Comanche • Coree • Crow • Cupeño • Dakelh • Dunneza • Erielhonan • Esselen • Ho-Chunk • Hopi • Hupa • Innu • Iowa • Iroquois • Jicarilla • Kalapuya •Karuk• Kato • Kaw • Kiowa • Kiskiack • Koasati • Koyukon • Laich-kwil-tach • Lakota • Lenape• Lipan • Lumbee • Mahican • Makah • Mandan • Mattaponi • Meherrin • Mescalero • Miccosukee • Mi'kmaq • Miwok • Modoc • Mohawk • Muscogee (Creek) • Nansemond • Natchez • Navajo • Neutral • Nez Perce • Nomlaki • Nooksack • Nottoway • Nuu-chah-nulth • Ojibwa • Ohlone • Omaha • Osage • Ottawa • Paiute • Pamunkey • Paspahegh • Pend d'Oreilles • Penobscot • Pomo • Potawatomi • Powhatan • Pueblo • Quinault • Rappanahock • Sahaptin • Salinan • Seminole • Seneca • Shawnee • Shoshone • Sioux • Stó:lō • Takelma • Thule • Tlingit • Tongva • Tsimshian • Tuscarora • Ute • Wampanoag • Wappo • Washitaw Nation • Washoe • Wintu • Wiyot • Yahi • Yakama • Yuchi • Yuki   Mexico: Aztec • Chichimeca • Chol • Huichol • Lacandon • Maya • Mixtec • Nahuatl • Tarahumara • Tarascan • Totonac • Yaqui • Zacateco • Zapotec Organizations Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma • Ak-Chin Indian Community • Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town • American Indian Movement • Bridge River Indian Band • Carcross/Tagish First Nation • Cherokee Nation • Cherokee Nation Warriors Society • Chickasaw Nation • Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma • Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon • Coushatta • Delaware Nation • Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians • Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma • In-Shuck-ch Nation • Hannahville Indian Community • Kamloops Indian Band • Kialegee Tribal Town • Kwanlin Dün First Nation • Lillooet Tribal Council • Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians • Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations • Musqueam Indian Band • Nisga'a • Qualla Boundary • Pine Ridge Reservation • Shawnee Tribe • Stockbridge-Munsee Community • Thlopthlocco Tribal Town • Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation • Confederated Tribes of Siletz • United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians • White Earth Indian Reservation Personalities Annawan • Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash • Henry Armstrong • Attakullakulla • Awashonks • Dennis Banks • Clyde Bellecourt • Vernon Bellecourt • Bob Benge • Black Fox • Blue Jacket • Elias Boudinot • The Bowl • William Augustus Bowles • Joseph Brandt • John Brown • Joe Byrd • Frank Arthur Calder • Cheeseekau • Chief Leschi • Ward Churchill • Cornplanter • Cornstalk • Crazy Horse • Ned Christie • Cochise • Deganawida • Doublehead • Estanislao • Chief Dan George • Geronimo • The Glass • Graham Greene • Handsome Lake • Hanging Maw • Elijah Harper • Ira Hayes • Hiawatha • Charles R. Hicks • William Hicks • Ishi • Edward John • John Jolly • Chief Joseph • Junaluska •Kanagatucko • Mary John, Sr. • Mangas Coloradas • Little Turkey • Little Turtle • Wilma Mankiller • Maquinna • Massasoit • Alexander McGillivray • William McIntosh • Russell Means • N. Scott Momaday • Adrien-Gabriel Morice • Madame Montour • Moytoy of Citico • Moytoy of Tellico • Nahnebahwequa • Joseph Onasakenrat • Oconostota • Opechancanough • Osceola • Ostenaco • Ely S. Parker • Quanah Parker • Pathkiller • Leonard Peltier • Pocahontas • Pocatello • Popé • Red Jacket • Allie Reynolds • John Ridge • John Rollin Ridge • Major Ridge • Robbie Robertson • Will Rogers • John Ross • Sacagawea • Louie Sam • Sauganash • Savanukah • Chief Seattle • Sequoyah • Shikellamy • Jay Silverheels • Sitting Bull • Nimrod Jarrett Smith • Squanto • Wes Studi • Tahlonteeskee • Tanaghrisson • Tatoka • Tecumseh • Teedyuscung • Kateri Tekakwitha • Tenskwatawa • William Holland Thomas • Jim Thorpe • Tiloukaikt • Touch the Clouds • John Trudell • Tsali • James Vann • Joseph Vann • Wamsutta • Nancy Ward • Washakie • Stand Watie • John Watts • Weetamoo • Wahunsenacawh • Floyd Red Crow Westerman • Sarah Winnemucca • Yonaguska History Anglo-Cherokee War • Apache Wars • Arikara War • Bannock War • Battle of Blue Licks • Battle of Burnt Corn • Battle of Carillon • Battle of Claremore Mound • Battle of Fallen Timbers • Battle of Fort Duquesne • Battle of Fort Oswego (1756) • Battle of Fort William Henry • Battle of Horseshoe Bend • Battle of Jumonville Glen • Battle of Little Bighorn • Battle of the Monongahela • Battle of Neches • Battle of Lake Okeechobee • Battle of the Plains of Abraham • Battle of the Wabash • Black Hawk War • Black Hills War • Capture and rescue of Jemima Boone • Cayuse War • Charlottetown Accord • Cherokee Nation v. Georgia • Cherokee removal • Cheyenne War • Chickamauga Wars (1776-1794) • Code talker • Colorado War • Creek War • Dade Massacre • Dawes Act • Dunmore's War • Federal Road • First Anglo-Powhatan War • Fort Loudoun (Tennessee) • Fort Prince George (South Carolina) • French and Indian War • Georgia Land Lottery • Going Snake Massacre • Historic treaties of the Cherokee Nation • Indian Massacre of 1622 • Indian Reorganization Act • Indian Removal Act • Indigenous American genetic studies • King Philip's War • Kiowa-Comanche War • Long Walk of the Navajo • Modoc War • Nickajack Expedition • North-West Rebellion • Northwest Indian War • Oka Crisis • Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act • Paiute War • Pequot War • Pontiac's Rebellion • Red Cloud's War • Red River Rebellion • Red River War • Red Sticks • Rogue River Wars • Royal Proclamation of 1763 • Sand Creek Massacre • Second Seminole War • Seminole Wars • Sioux Uprising • Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-Paloos War • State of Muskogee • State of Sequoyah • Tecumseh's War • Third Seminole War • Timeline of Cherokee removal • Trail of Tears • Treaty of Bird’s Fort • Treaty of Cusseta • Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek • Treaty of Easton • Treaty of Fort Pitt (1778) • Treaty of Fort Stanwix • Treaty of Holston • Treaty of Hopewell • Treaty of Lochaber • Treaty of New Echota • Treaty of Payne's Landing • Tuscarora War • Worcester v. Georgia • Wounded Knee Incident • Wounded Knee Massacre • Yakima War • Yamasee War Linguistics Algic • Alsean • Caddoan • Coosan • Comecrudan • Chimakuan • Chinookan • Chumashan • Eskimo-Aleut • Iroquoian • Kalapuyan • Keresan • Kiowa-Tanoan • Maiduan • Muskogean • Na-Dene • Palaihnihan • Plateau Penutian • Pomoan • Salishan • Shastan • Siouan-Catawban • Tsimshianic • Utian • Uto-Aztecan • Wakashan • Wintuan • Yokutsan • Yuki-Wappo • Yuman-Cochimi Culture Adena culture • Alachua culture • Algonquian peoples • Angel Mounds • Ani-kutani • Apalachee Province • Aztalan State Park • Belle Glade culture • Black drink • Black Hawk State Historic Site • Buffalo jump • Cades Pond culture • Cahokia • Caloosahatchee culture • Camassia • Cherokee Clans • Cherokee mythology • Cherokee Path • Cherokee Phoenix • Chief Vann House Historic Site • Chilhowee (Cherokee town) • Chota (Cherokee town) • Citico (Tellico archaeological site) • Cochise Tradition • Coosa chiefdom • Etowah Indian Mounds • Fort Mountain State Park • Ghost Dance • Great Hiwassee • Great Indian Warpath • Great Tellico • Green Corn Ceremony • History of lacrosse • Hopewell culture • Holly Bluff Site • Joara • Keowee • Key Marco • Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site • Kings Crossing Site • Kituwa • Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park • Medicine wheel • Mialoquo (Cherokee town) • Mississippian culture • Moccasin Bend • Moundville Archaeological Site • Nanih Waiya • Native American longhouse • New Echota • Nikwasi • Nodena Site • Ocmulgee National Monument • Old Stone Fort (Tennessee) • Oshara Tradition • Overhill Cherokee • Pacaha • Parkin Archeological State Park • Peyote • Pinson Mounds • Plaquemine culture • Quiggly hole • Red Clay State Park • Southeastern Ceremonial Complex • Spiro Mounds • Swift Creek culture • Tallassee (Cherokee town) • Tanasi • Thuja plicata • Tomotley • Town Creek Indian Mound • Tsenacommacah • Tuskegee (Cherokee town) • Warriors Path State Park • Weeden Island culture • Werowocomoco • Wickliffe mounds; Windover Archaeological Site • Winterville Site • Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park    Distribution of Indigenous languages of North America Eskimo-Aleut Na-Dene Algic Tsimshianic Wakashan Salishan Chimakuan Chinookan Plateau Penutian Kalapuyan Alsean Coosan Shastan Palaihnihan Wintuan Yuki-Wappo Pomoan Maiduan Utian Chumashan Uto-Aztecan Yokutsan Yuman-Cochimi Keresan Kiowa-Tanoan Caddoan Siouan-Catawban Comecrudan Muskogean Iroquoian Isolates Unclassified Unknown/Unclassified   1 Beothuk   2 Yuchi   3 Timucua   4 Calusa   5 Tunica   6 Natchez   7 Chitimacha   8 Adal   9 Atakapa 10 Karankawa 11 Tonkawa 12 Aranama 13 Cotoname 14 Coahuilteco 15 Solano 16 Zuni 17 Seri 18 Salinan 19 Esselen 20 Washo 21 Yana 22 Chimariko 23 Karuk 24 Takelma 25 Siuslaw 26 Cayuse 27 Kutenai 28 Haida    Associated Wikimedia What are portals? 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