Native speakers of a given language usually perceive one phoneme in their language as a single distinctive sound in that language and are " both unaware of and even shocked by " the allophone variations used to pronounce single phonemes.

Smith led expeditions to explore the regions surrounding Jamestown, and it was during one of these that the chief of the Powhatan Native Americans captured Smith.

He also made several contacts among the Native American tribes in the area, at one point negotiating an $ 800, 000 settlement between the Creeks and other tribes and the federal government.

Their children were called mestizos, but the Native Cubans called them Guajiro, which translates as " one of us ".

The FBI does not specifically list crimes in Native American land as one of its priorities.

The agreement represented one of the largest transfers of land that was signed between the U. S. Government and Native Americans without being instigated by warfare.

It has been hailed as one of the few films made by a Caucasian that presents an authentic Native American culture and character, and Jarmusch stands by it as such, though it has attracted both praise and castigation for its portrayal of the American West, violence, and especially Native Americans.

Brando was one of the first actor-activists to march for civil and Native American rights.

Intertribal mixing was common among Native American tribes, so individuals often had ancestry from more than one tribe, particularly after tribes lost so many members from disease.

For instance, federal scholarships for Native Americans require the student to be enrolled in a federally recognized tribe and have at least one-quarter Native American descent ( equivalent to one grandparent ), attested to by a Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood ( CDIB ) card.

Since the census of 2000, people who have, or believe they have, Native American ancestry may designate themselves, for census purposes, as being of more than one race.

Charles Eastman was one of the first Native Americans to become certified as a Medical Doctor | medical doctor, after he graduated from Boston University.

From their cultures came one of the main staples of the Southern diet: corn ( maize ) – either ground into meal or limed with an alkaline salt to make hominy, in a Native American technology known as nixtamalization.

The university also maintains a school of law, which is one of the few to specialize in Native American legal issues.

The scientists have found that all of the Martians have died of chickenpox ( brought by one of the first three expeditions )— analogous to the devastation of Native American populations by smallpox.

He notes that text books with a painting of a handsome Native American ( such as the one one by Benjamin West on this page ) are even given to school children with the cautionary caption, " A painting of a Noble Savage ".

With an approximate population of more than 3, 000, the Muckleshoots are one of the largest Native American groups in Washington State.

Native Russian-speakers will pronounce the Ukrainian в as / v /, whereas Ukrainians will often use / w /, which is one way to tell the two groups apart.

The Owens Valley Indian War of 1861 – 1863 ensued ; at the end, the Owens Valley Paiute, along with other native peoples in the region, were forced at gunpoint by the United States Army to walk almost to Fort Tejon, in one of the many forced relocations or " Trails of Tears " inflicted upon Native Americans in the United States.

The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in the area on the western end of Long Island, also inhabited by a Native American people, the Lenape ( often referred to in contemporary colonial documents by the Lenape place-name for one of the larger native settlements :" Canarsee ").

At the time of European contact in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Native American inhabitants of what would become Westchester County were part of one of the Algonquian peoples whose name for themselves was Lenape (" the people ").

Native speakers of these two languages can understand one another without great difficulty.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

In a matter of months the War Department built thirty-two camps, each one accommodating fifty thousand men -- sixteen were under canvas in the South and sixteen with frame structures in the North.

He spent one year at the University of North Carolina because Thomas Wolfe went there.

It was the opinion of some of us that these must be part of the Committeemen who had been in the Battle of the North Bridge, which entitled them to a sort of veteran status, and we felt that if they employed this tactic, it was likely enough the best one.

In fact, Hudson's sail up the Great North River had disposed of one of the last hopes.

They were followed by crack North Korean troops, who mounted one charge after another.

The minister, describing the attacks which led up to the appeal, said that 60,000 Communist North Vietnamese were fighting royal army troops on one front -- near Thakhek, in southern-central Laos.

An alternative classification, though one with much less currency among Altaicists, was proposed by John C. Street ( 1962 ), according to which Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic forms one grouping and Korean-Japanese-Ainu another, the two being linked in a common family that Street designated as " North Asiatic ".

Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.

The moderates ' efforts to compromise with Johnson failed, and a political war ensued between the Republicans ( both radical and moderate ) on one side, and on the other, Johnson and his allies in the Democratic Party in the North and the conservative groupings in the South.

Alberta is located in the northwestern quadrant of North America, in a region of low population density called the Interior Plains ( and referred to by one author as North America's " Empty Quarter ").

The area between the east and west coast highlands, which north of 17 ° N is mainly desert, is divided into separate basins by other bands of high ground, one of which runs nearly centrally through North Africa in a line corresponding roughly with the curved axis of the continent as a whole.

Around the same time, on the North slope, in a cave next to the one dedicated to Pan since the classical period, a sanctuary was founded where the archons dedicated to Apollo on taking office.

The software, maintained by AOL, Inc., at one time had the largest share of the instant messaging market in North America, especially in the United States ( with 52 % of the total reported as of 2006 ).

Its position as the Asia-Pacific gateway resulted in the settlement of the province by people of Asian descent, making it one of the most diverse and multicultural areas of Western North America, as well as helping start trade, cultural and diplomatic relations between Canada and the Asia-Pacific region.

The coldest temperature in British Columbia was recorded in Smith River, where it dropped to, one of the coldest readings recorded anywhere in North America.

Bay leaves are one of the most widely used culinary herbs in Europe and North America.

For purposes of scoring and reference, each player is identified by one of the points of the compass and thus North and South play against East and West.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

The Bald Eagle builds the largest nest of any North American bird, up to deep, wide, and one metric ton ( 1. 1 tons ) in weight.

Despite its secretive nature, the northern bobwhite is one of the most familiar quails in eastern North America because it is frequently the only quail in its range.

File: British Museum gold thing 501594 fh000035. jpg | Room 51-Mold gold cape, North Wales, Bronze Age, c. 1900 – 1600 BC ( one of the finest examples of prehistoric sheet-gold working )