But, there is not clear evidence of this from efforts to use traditional comparative linguistic methods to classify indigenous Native American languages.

" As noted above, Native American tribes such as the Omaha, which had patrilineal descent and inheritance, used hypodescent to classify the children of white men and Native American women as white.

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.

Native California oysters, salty and piquant, as coppery as Delawares and not much larger than a five-cent piece, went into it.

Cooking in the American West gets its influence from Native American and Mexican cultures, and other European settlers into the part of the country.

He turned the settlers into foragers and successful traders with the Native Americans, who taught the English how to plant corn and other crops.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ) was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 23, 1971, the largest land claims settlement in United States history.

Broadway was originally the Wickquasgeck Trail, carved into the brush destination of Manhattan by its Native American inhabitants.

Traditional stories from many Native American, First Nations, and Aboriginal cultures include a deity whose name is translated into English as " Coyote ".

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.

* 1887 – The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.

Native Celtic peoples had been marginalized during the period of Roman Britain, and when the Romans abandoned the British Isles during the 400s, waves of Germanic peoples, known to later historians as the Anglo-Saxons, migrated to southern Britain and established a series of petty kingdoms in what would eventually develop into the Kingdom of England by AD 927.

When switched into 6309 Native Mode ( as opposed to the default 6809-compatible mode ) many key instructions will complete in fewer clock cycles.

Many other Native American cultures also made hominy and integrated it into their diet.

* 1924 – U. S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.

They tracked the Native band for two days, and upon locating them, rushed into their encampment.

The Louisiana Territory was broken into smaller portions for administration, and the territories passed slavery laws similar to those in the southern states but trying to encompass the preceding French and Spanish rule ( for instance, Spain had prohibited slavery of Native Americans in 1769, but some slaves of mixed African-Native American descent were still being held in St. Louis when the US took over the Louisiana Territory ).

The short story, " The Enchanted Buffalo ", claims to be a legend of a tribe of bison, and states that a key element made it into legends of Native American tribes.

In North and Central America, and to some extent in West Africa, Australia and other parts of the world, every male acquires at puberty a tutelary spirit ( see Demonology ); in some Native American tribes the youth kills the animal of which he dreams in his initiation fast ; its claw, skin or feathers are put into a little bag and become his " medicine " and must be carefully retained, for a " medicine " once lost can never be replaced.

Native elements are subdivided into groups by their structure or chemical attributes.

Native Instruments ' Kore was an effort to bring the editor / librarian concept into the age of software instruments.

During the period when White and de Bry were working, when Europeans were first coming into contact with Native Americans, Europeans were greatly interested in native American cultures.

Far from forming a single ethnic group, Native Americans were divided into several hundred ethno-linguistic groups, most of them grouped into the Na-Dené ( Athabaskan ), Algic ( including Algonquian ), Uto-Aztecan, Iroquoian, Siouan – Catawban, Yok-Utian, Salishan and Yuman phyla, besides many smaller groups and several language isolates.

Native Americans used controlled fires to burn weeds and clear fields ; this would put nutrients back into the ground.

The Native American author, Andrew J. Blackbird, wrote in his History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan, ( 1897 ), that white settlers introduced some immoralities into Native American tribes.

Native Americans began selling war captives to whites rather than integrating them into their own societies as they had done before.

Rarer lateral consonants include the retroflex laterals that can be found in most Indic languages and in some Swedish dialects, and the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative, found in many Native North American languages, Welsh and Zulu.

For years, Native people on U. S. television were relegated to secondary, subordinate roles.

During the years of the series Bonanza ( 1959 – 1973 ), no major or secondary Native characters appeared on a consistent basis.

As the Lenni Lenape population declined, and the European population increased, the history of the area was increasingly defined by the new European inhabitants and the Lenape Native American tribes played an increasingly secondary role.

He and his fellow MCP ministers quickly expanded secondary education, reformed the so-called Native Courts, ended certain colonial agricultural tariffs and made other reforms.

A secondary purpose of this settlement was to establish a regular trade with the local Native Americans, necessary in order to maintain friendly relations.

The College was originally a secondary school established to educate Native Americans.

The Wessex rustics who play critical but generally secondary roles in Hardy's later novels, like The Return of the Native and The Mayor of Casterbridge, claim the centre stage in Under the Greenwood Tree.

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.

The " all-new, all-different X-Men " were led by Cyclops from the original team and consisted of the newly created Colossus ( from the Soviet Union ), Nightcrawler ( from West Germany ), Storm ( from Kenya ), and Thunderbird ( a Native American from the Apache nation ), along with three previously introduced characters, Banshee ( from Ireland ), Sunfire ( from Japan ), and Wolverine ( from Canada ), who eventually became the breakout character on the team and, in terms of comic sales and appearances, the most popular X-Men character.

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 ).

Controversy arose over both the adoption and Depp's portrayal of a Native American character, as Depp was not raised in, nor has confirmable ancestry from, a Native American community, though he has said he " guesses " he may have some distant Cherokee or Creek ancestry.

From Native American, to the Spanish, French and British, the city has seen a lengthy parade of historic influences which gives Daphne its present character.

The Lone Ranger is a fictional character, a masked ex-Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West.

" The name " Niota " was based on the name of a fictional character in a dime novel, a Native American chief named " Nee-o-tah.

Mike Judge would continue to slyly mock Winger in his next animated series King of the Hill, as the character of John Redcorn was a former roadie for the band until embarking on a Native American vision quest, where he discovered that " wrangling groupies for Winger was not my proper life path ".

The character was to be of Native American descent until Geary auditioned for the role.

Arriving in Canada, he journeyed into the backwoods, where he was affiliated to a tribe of Native Americans but had to flee because his life was in danger, as later his character Bagenal Daly did in his novel The Knight of Gwynne.

* In Native American mythology and Native American religion, the sky father is a common character in creation myth.

For much of the colonial period, Mexico City would remain very Native American in character, with elements of these cultures surviving into modern times.

The film is the first animated feature Disney film to be based on a real historic character, based on the known history and also the folklore and legend that surround the Native American woman Pocahontas, and features a fictionalized account of her encounter with Englishman John Smith and the settlers that arrived from the Virginia Company.

A character in the book says that this is the Native American meaning of ' Sonoma Valley '.

While wendigos have been referred to in literature for many decades ( most notably in Algernon Blackwood's 1910 story " The Wendigo ," which introduced the legend to horror fiction, and in Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary ), recently they have become something of a stock character in horror and fantasy films and television, along the lines of werewolves and vampires, usually bearing very little resemblance to the Native American legends.

Hergé wanted to send his newly created character of Tintin on an adventure to the United States, where he could encounter the Native Americans, a people whom Hergé himself had been fascinated with since being a boy scout.

The character of Dirk Peters, a hybrid of white and Native American ancestry, is described as having ferocity in his appearance with long, protruding teeth, bowed legs, and a bald head like " the head of most negroes ".

The historical Little Big Man was a Native American leader bearing no resemblance to the Jack Crabb character.

The character of Jack Crabb is partially based on Curley, one of Custer's Native American scouts from the Crow tribe.

On another occasion, after Millionaire had drawn a comic featuring a stereotypical Native American character, Chief Boomerang, Maakies ran a " rebuttal " strip by Tania Willard of the Secwepemc Nation lambasting Millionaire, his characters, and his editor.