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Indians and name
Somers asked the local newspapers to come up with a new name, and they chose " Indians ".
Proponents of the name acknowledged that the Cleveland Spiders of the National League had sometimes been informally called the " Indians " during Sockalexis ' short career there, a fact which merely reinforced the new name.
" The Indians honored their loyal fans by retiring the number 455 with the name 455 The Fans.
Mipps then joined Syn in his quest for revenge, pursuing Tappitt and Imogene throughout the thirteen American colonies ( supposedly preaching the gospel to the Indians ) and around the world ( as part of a whaling voyage ) afterwards, and was with him in the Caribbean when Dr. Syn turned again to piracy, assuming the name of Captain Clegg ( taking the name " Clegg " from a certain vicious biting fly he had encountered in America ), hijacking his enemy Tappitt's own ship and crew and sailing off with them ( renaming the ship the Imogene ) to become the most infamous pirate of the day.
The standard 7-inch mix ( by the name of " Cowboys & Indians ") featured a pop / radio-oriented production that dispensed with a section of the song's middle eight altogether.
The name refers to the Mobile Indians of the central Gulf Coast.
Other events include the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, it being a record made by the ancestors of the Indians, and also what is believed to be the founding of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, although it is not mentioned by name, yet there are described several events which imply movements and church formation.
This traditional name continues as the standard in the United States, although it obscures the fact that Indians fought on both sides of the conflict.
Adirondack Indians got their name from the Mohawk Indian word atirú: taks, meaning " tree eaters ".
Benjamin Wilson was also a well known Indian fighter who served as justice of the peace for the Mexican authorities and it was while hunting down renegade Indians that he discovered what is present day Big Bear, California which received that name because Wilson and his posse lassoed and killed over thirty grizzly bears while passing through.
The county's name comes from Lake Erie, which in turn comes from the Erie tribe of American Indians who lived south and east of the lake before 1654.
The provisions for the apparent benefit of the Indians are but the pretext to get at his lands and occupy them .... If this were done in the name of Greed, it would be bad enough ; but to do it in the name of Humanity ... is infinitely worse.
The Kinston Indians relocated to Zebulon, North Carolina east of Raleigh next year to replace the AA level Carolina Mudcats and will adapt the " Mudcats " name.
The Indians called Cottonwood Creek by the name Sivareeche Creek and the Spanish called the creek Mateo.
It was named for the Spanish name ( Yuta ) for the Ute Indians.
Choptank River takes its name from a tribe of Indians that inhabited both shores of this stream before its settlement by the English.
Modern use of the term applies mostly to African-Americans and West Indians who are descended from slaves, and are thereby capable of having a " slave name ".
"... They say that their traditions say that the people we call the Croatan Indians ( though they do not recognize that name as that of a tribe, but only a village, and that they were Tuscaroras ), were always friendly to the whites ; and finding them destitute and despairing of ever receiving aid from England, persuaded them to leave Island, and go to the mainland ...
The colony was established by Richard Grenville, who bought back two native Indians, one of them Manteo which gave the North Carolina town its name.
# The name came from a word meaning " Land of the Euchee ," from the Euchee Indians who migrated into the area after the Timucua Indian cultures faded away in the early 1700s.

Indians and originates
The line " Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding / Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind " originates from his poem, " Newborn Awakening " ( and it also appears at the end of " Ghost Song ").

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Interestingly enough, the order transmitted to Morgan through Alexander Hamilton also informed him that `` A party of Indians will join the party to be sent from your command at Whitemarsh, and act with them ''.
The greatest source of trouble was rain which had repeatedly flowed from openings above, soaking the surface and leaving streaks of dissolved lime, very conspicuous even after cleaning, particularly in the `` Landing of Columbus '', `` Oglethorpe and the Indians '', and `` Yorktown ''.
British traders from South Carolina incited the Indians against the French, and there developed French and British Factions in the tribe.
With the loss of the Mobile trade, which ended all profits from Louisiana, the Natchez Indians revolted.
Blackfeet Indians used an infusion made from the bark of red alder to treat lymphatic disorders and tuberculosis.
* 1680 – Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
But many Criollos did not want to lose the class privileges, in any new republics, and the most among the coloured majorities ( Indians, blacks and mixed-bloods ) did not want to lose the backing that they had from the Crown and Catholic Church.
Many cultures have attached importance to astronomical events, and the Indians, Chinese, and Mayans developed elaborate systems for predicting terrestrial events from celestial observations.
While the earliest cuisine of the United States was influenced by indigenous American Indians, the cuisine of the thirteen colonies or the culture of the antebellum American South ; the overall culture of the nation, its gastronomy and the growing culinary arts became ever more influenced by its changing ethnic mix and immigrant patterns from the 18th and 19th centuries unto the present.
Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.
The Indians claimed that these giants lived on and around the peaks of nearby mountains and stole salmon from the fishermen's nets.
With the Spanish New Laws of 1552 Cuban Indians were freed from encomienda, and some seven Indian towns were set up.
Instead of blacks, slave traders looked for others sources of cheap labour, such as Chinese colonists and Indians from Yucatán.
The 1913 Handbook of Indians of Canada ( reprinting 1907 material from the Bureau of American Ethnology ), claims that North American natives practicing cannibalism included "... the Montagnais, and some of the tribes of Maine ; the Algonkin, Armouchiquois, Iroquois, and Micmac ; farther west the Assiniboine, Cree, Foxes, Chippewa, Miami, Ottawa, Kickapoo, Illinois, Sioux, and Winnebago ; in the South the people who built the mounds in Florida, and the Tonkawa, Attacapa, Karankawa, Caddo, and Comanche (?
A filé gumbo is thickened with sassafras leaves after the stew has finished cooking, a practice borrowed from the Choctaw Indians.
According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.
In Bill Veeck formed an investment group that purchased the Cleveland Indians from Bradley's group for a reported $ 1. 6 million.
The Cleveland Indians logo from 1946-1950
On September 23, 1949, Bill Veeck and the Indians buried their 1948 pennant in center field the day after they were mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
The Indians hired general manager Frank Lane, known as " Trader " Lane, away from the St. Louis Cardinals in 1957.
After the Maris trade, Lane acquired 25-year old Norm Cash from the White Sox for Minnie Miñoso and then traded him to Detroit before he ever played a game for the Indians ; Cash went on to hit over 350 home runs for the Tigers.

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