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The Native American name for the island is Gingoteague, and the name of the town " Chincoteague " first appeared in the Decisions of the United States Board on Geographical Names in 1943.
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From its beginnings in the early 19th century through the early 20th century, anthropology in the United States was influenced by the presence of Native American societies.
Cultural anthropology in the United States was influenced greatly by the ready availability of Native American societies as ethnographic subjects.
Kroeber and Sapir's focus on Native American languages helped establish linguistics as a truly general science and free it from its historical focus on Indo-European languages.
Aztlan Underground were nominated for four Native American Music Award categories for the Nammys 2010.
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In this week, members of the Penobscot Tribe from all over Maine venture to the Penobscot Indian Island Reservation in Old Town and take part in games, Native American arts and crafts, pow-wows, cook-outs, etc.
Ancient Pueblo peoples or Ancestral Pueblo peoples were an ancient Native American culture centered on the present-day Four Corners area of the United States, comprising southern Utah, northern Arizona, northwest New Mexico, and southern Colorado.
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* Many traditional Native American religions are fundamentally animistic.
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* 1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father.
A polarizing figure who dominated the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s, as president he dismantled the Second Bank of the United States and initiated ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of Native American tribes from the Southeast to west of the Mississippi River.
* 1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
Since then, American English has been influenced by the languages of West Africa, the Native American population, Spanish, and immigration.
During the 1930s, the ACLU started to engage in work combating police misconduct and Native American rights.
Early Native Americans utilized a number of cooking methods in early American Cuisine, that have been blended with early European cooking methods to form the basis of American Cuisine.
The Native American cuisine became part of the cookery style that the early colonists brought with them.
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Traditional stories from many Native American, First Nations, and Aboriginal cultures include a deity whose name is translated into English as " Coyote ".
The name " Chicago " is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, translated as " wild onion " or " wild garlic ," from the Miami-Illinois language.
The band name is a portmanteau of " jam session " and " iroquai ", based on the Iroquois, a Native American tribe.
In the traditional Native Canadian version, each team consisted of about 100 to 1, 000 men on a field that stretched from about 500 meters to 3 kilometers long .< ref name =" STX ">
* Native mercury, liquid ( IMA / CNMNC valid mineral name )
The lake takes its name from the Seneca nation of Native Americans.
John Heckewelder stated his belief that the name grew out of the attempts by Native Americans to pronounce the word English.
The name refers to the two main enemies of the British colonists: the royal French forces and the various Native American forces allied with them.
Founded in 1548 by the Spanish conquistadors at the site of the Native American settlement, Laja, the full name of the city was originally Nuestra Señora de La Paz ( meaning Our Lady of Peace ).
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 ").
Tis-sa-ack is the name of a Mono Lake Paiute Indian girl in the Yosemite Native American legend.
The town is close to Taos Pueblo, the Native American village and tribe from which it takes its name.
The word ' Adirondack ' is a Native American expression applied to the Algonquians by the Iroquois, who intended it as a derogatory name meaning ' the ones who eat bark '.
The name Onondaga derives from the name of the Native American people who historically lived in the area at the time of European contact, one of the original Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee.
The name refers to clay deposits found in the Chama River Valley and used by Native American peoples.
Socorro was originally the name given to a Native American village ( see: Puebloan peoples ) by Don Juan de Oñate in 1598.
The local Native American name for the site was Istrouma.
The trees acquired the name bois d ' arc, or " bow-wood ", from early French settlers who observed the wood being used for war clubs and bow-making by Native Americans.
The former Spanish settlement at Sajavit lies within that area occupied during the late Paleoindian period and continuing on into the present day by the Native American society commonly known as the Juaneño ; the name denotes those people who were ministered by the padres at Mission San Juan Capistrano.
* Malabar ( Nadan / Native ), as the name suggests, is the native variety of Kerala.
The New Jersey name was said to have come from the Native American name Pra-qua-les (" Quail Woods ") for the area.
Native speakers sometimes refer to their vernacular as braid Scots ( or " broad Scots " in English ) or use a dialect name such as the " Doric ", " Teri " or the " Buchan Claik ".
She began publishing fiction in Danish periodicals in 1905 under the pseudonym Osceola, the name of the Seminole leader, possibly inspired by her father's connection with Native Americans.
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