Flashcards: Indigenous peoples of North America

The Brulé are one of the seven branches or bands (sometimes called "sub-tribes") of the Teton (Titonwan) Lakota American Indian people.

Idle No More is an ongoing protest movement, founded in December 2012 by four women: three First Nations women and one non-Native ally.

The Maidu are an indigenous people of northern California.

A canoe is a lightweight narrow boat, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel using a single-bladed paddle.

The Abenaki (Abnaki, Alnôbak) are a Native American tribe and First Nation.

The Eskimo are the indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the northern circumpolar region from eastern Siberia (Russia), across Alaska (United States), Canada, and Greenland.

The Oglala Lakota or Oglala Sioux (pronounced [oɡəˈlala], meaning "to scatter one's own" in Lakota language) are one of the seven subtribes of the Lakota people who, along with the Nakota and Dakota, make up the Great Sioux Nation.

The Nanticoke people are an indigenous American Algonquian people, whose traditional homelands are in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware.

Melungeon (/məˈlʌndʒən/ mə-LUN-jən) is a term traditionally applied to one of numerous "tri-racial isolate" groups of the Southeastern United States.

The Kickapoo people (Kickapoo: Kiikaapoa or Kiikaapoi) are an Algonquian-speaking Native American and Indigenous Mexican tribe.

The Oka Crisis was a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, which began on July 11, 1990, and lasted until September 26, 1990.

The Hoocąągra, sometimes called "Ho-Chunk" or Wisconsin Winnebago, are the parent tongue to all tribes that were previously considered "Siouan" speakers.

Wampum are traditional shell beads of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of the indigenous people of North America.

Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic are the aboriginal peoples who live in the Subarctic regions of the Americas, located south of the true Arctic.

"Redskin" is a slang term referring to Native Americans in the United States.

Appeal to the Great Spirit is a 1909 equestrian statue by Cyrus Dallin, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The North American fur trade was the industry and activities related to the acquisition, trade, exchange, and sale of animal furs in North America.

Ohlone people, named Costanoan by early Spanish colonists (the Spanish word costa means "coast"), are a Native American people of the Northern California coast.

Native American stickball is considered to be one of the oldest team sports in North America.

The Native American name controversy is an ongoing discussion about the changing terminology used by indigenous peoples of the Americas to describe themselves, as well as how they prefer to be referred to by others.