The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first Native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

The state was 68. 9 % White ( 65. 3 % Non-Hispanic White Alone ), 21. 4 % Black or African American, 0. 5 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 3. 2 % Asian, 0. 0 % Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 3. 4 % from Some Other Race, and 2. 7 % from Two or More Races.

Before returning upriver and across the mountains, Thompson hired Naukane, a Native Hawaiian laborer brought to Fort Astoria by the Pacific Fur Company's ship Tonquin.

The U. S. Census Bureau used FIPS place codes database to identify legal and statistical entities for county subdivisions, places, and American Indian areas, Alaska Native areas, or Hawaiian home lands when they needed to present census data for these areas.

Category: People of Native Hawaiian descent

Like non-Latinos, a Latino can be of any race or combination of races: White / Caucasian, Black / African American, Asian, Native American, Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander American, or two or more races.

According to the 2010 Census, 68. 4 % of the population was White ( 40. 5 % non-Hispanic white ), 2. 1 % was Black or African American, 9. 4 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 1. 4 % Asian, 0. 1 % Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 3. 7 % from two or more races.

* 0. 1 % Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

As of the American Community Survey Three-Year Estimate of 2006 – 2008, the city's population was 67. 0 % White ( 65. 8 % non-Hispanic White alone ), 26. 5 % Black or African American, 1. 0 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 3. 5 % Asian, 0. 1 % Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 0. 7 % from some other race and 2. 1 % from two or more races.

Up to and including 2011, there were separate categories for various regional American music forms, such as Hawaiian music, Native American music and Zydeco / Cajun music.

* 0. 0 % Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

* 0. 0 % Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

* 0. 0 % Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

* Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0. 1 %

The racial makeup of the population was: 60. 9 % White ( 48. 0 % Non-Hispanic white ), 10. 5 % Black, 0. 7 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 8. 7 % Asian, 0. 7 % Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 5. 1 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the county was 92. 57 % ( 124, 875 people ) white, 2. 37 % ( 3, 197 people ) African-American, 0. 51 % ( 688 people ) Asian, 0. 51 % ( 689 people ) Native American / Alaskan, 0. 03 % ( 34 people ) Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander, 1. 98 % ( 2, 669 people ) other, and 2. 04 % ( 2, 751 people ) two or more races.

At the 2010 Census, the city's population was 75. 1 % White, 2. 7 % Black, 1. 2 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 4. 4 % Asian, 2. 0 % Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 10. 7 % from some other race and 3. 7 % from two or more races.

* 0. 0 % Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

One scholar wrote about the detective novels of Tony Hillerman, set among the Native American population around New Mexico, " many American readers have probably gotten more insight into traditional Navajo culture from his detective stories than from any other recent books.

John Norman — the pseudonym of Dr. John Lange, a professor of philosophy and a classical scholar — often delights in ethnography, populating his planet with the equivalents of Roman, Greek, Native American, Viking, and other cultures.

There are several markers of Cherokee and Native American heritage found across town: street signs and business signs appear in the Cherokee language along with English, mostly in the syllabary created by Sequoyah, a Cherokee scholar of the 1820s.

For example, one scholar pointed to writings by an alleged ancient Native American historian Ixtlilxochitl who wrote about a group of people who came from the great tower to Mesoamerica.

* Robert A. Williams, Jr., Native author and legal scholar

" Washington-based constitutional scholar Bruce Fein has outlined a number of counter-arguments disputing the accuracy of the assertions made in the Apology Resolution, stating " The apology wrongly insinuates that the overthrown 1893 government was for Native Hawaiians alone ".

The forest is named after Albert Gallatin ( 1761 – 1849 ), U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and scholar of Native American languages and cultures.

Two key concepts shape Native American studies, according to Sioux scholar Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, indigenousness ( as defined in culture, geography, and philosophy ) and sovereignty ( as legally and historically defined ).

Martin has been featured on dozens of albums and several film soundtracks, and notable collaborations include work with REM guitarist Peter Buck, Iraqi master musician Rahim Alhaj, West African Griot and master musician Foday Musa Suso, delta bluesman CeDell Davis, Rumi scholar and poet Coleman Barks, and Native American poet and songwriter Joy Harjo.

* Felix S. Cohen was a lawyer, legal scholar, and activist who specialized in federal law as it related to Native Americans.

Charles Curtis, the nation's first Native American Vice President, was from the Kaw tribe in Kansas.

* 1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U. S. Senator.

" While many 19th-century images of Native Americans conveyed similarly negative messages, artists such as Charles Bird King sought to express a more balanced image of Native Americans.

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

* January 8 – Charles Alexander Eastman, Native American author, physician, reformer, helped found the Boy Scouts of America ( b. 1858 )

* February 19 – Charles Alexander Eastman, Native American author, physician, reformer, helped found the Boy Scouts of America ( d. 1939 )

Although Charles Dickens had ridiculed positive depictions of Native Americans as portrayals of so-called " noble " savages, he made an exception ( at least initially ) in the case of the Inuit, whom he called “ loving children of the north ”, “ forever happy with their lot ,” “ whether they are hungry or full ”, and “ gentle loving savages ”, who, despite a tendency to steal, have a “ quiet, amiable character ” (" Our Phantom Ship on an Antediluvian Cruise ", Household Words, April 16, 1851 ).

Once populated by Native Indians South Elgin and the other bordering towns Bartlett & St. Charles have done well in preserving this lands history.

Two Native American tribes, the Pequossette and the Nonantum, had settlements on the banks of the river later called the Charles.

The Dutch initally settled the area near the bottomlands of the Passaic River in 1669 after purchasing it from the Native Americans naming it Gansegat which is Dutch for duck's pond .<< ver >> Poekel Jr., Charles A.

The written history of New Providence begins in 1664 when James, Duke of York and brother to King Charles II, purchased the land that became known as the Elizabethtown Tract from the Lenape Native Americans.

* Charles Curtis, the only Native American to be elected Vice President of the United States ( under Herbert Hoover ( 1929 – 1933 )).

The country welcomes celebrities of Native American background, such as Will Rogers and Jim Thorpe, and elected a vice president with significant Native American ancestry, Charles Curtis, in 1928.

Charles Fletcher Lummis, himself an immigrant to California, recorded many kinds of Spanish and Native American folk music for the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.

While her husband was still suffering the effects of his injury from the previous October, Laura set out early the next morning to warn the Lieutenant herself, reportedly walking roughly from present day Queenston through St. Davids ( stopping at the home of her half-brother Charles, who was ill in bed ), Homer, Shipman's Corners ( present-day St. Catharines ) and Short Hills at the Niagara Escarpment before arriving at the camp of allied Native warriors who led her the rest of the way to FitzGibbon's headquarters at the DeCew house.

He had intended to go to the bar, but in the October term of 1802 he chanced to hear Charles Simeon speaking of the good done in India by a single missionary, William Carey, and some time afterwards he read the life of David Brainerd, a missionary to the Native Americans.

On the instructions of Charles La Trobe a Native Police Corps was established and underwritten by the government in 1842 in the hope of civilising the aboriginal men.

Notable and award winning Native American flautists include: Mary Youngblood, Kevin Locke, Charles Littleleaf, Jay Red Eagle, Robert Tree Cody, Robert Mirabal, Joseph Firecrow, Jeff Ball and Terry Lee Whetstone.

* Download recording Ghost Dance and gambling song from the Piute and Arapaho Native Americans from the Library of Congress ' Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry Collection ; performed by James Mooney ( possibly along with Charles Mooney ; neither are believed to be Native Americans ) on July 5, 1894

Of the six delegates at the convention, four were Native Americans ; Murray and Charles N. Haskell were the only non-tribal, European Americans.

Charles Cummings was elected as county sheriff, Gerald ' Jed ' Bettelyoun to one of the positions as county commissioner, and Sandy Flye became the first Native American elected to a seat on the county school board.