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The Iroquoian peoples are an ethnolinguistic group of peoples from eastern North America. Their traditional territories, often referred to by scholars as Iroquoia, [ 1 ] stretch from the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in the north, to modern-day North Carolina in the south. Historical Iroquoian people were the Five nations of the Iroquois or ...
Piscataway people. Kinwaw Paskestikweya. The three Piscataway tribal leaders representing the Piscataway Indian Nation and Tayac Territory, Piscataway-Conoy Tribe of Maryland, and Cedarville Band of Piscataway received official recognition as tribes from the State of Maryland in 2012. Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley is 2nd from right.
The Piscataway Indian Nation / pɪsˈkætəˌweɪ /, also called Piscatawa / pɪsˈkætəˌweɪ, ˌpɪskəˈtɑːwə /, [1] is a state-recognized tribe in Maryland [2] who identify as descendants of the historic Piscataway people. [3] At the time of European encounter, the Piscataway was one of the most populous and powerful Native polities of ...
Meskwaki are of Algonquian origin from the prehistoric Woodland period culture area. The Meskwaki language is a dialect of the Sauk-Fox-Kickapoo language spoken by the Sauk, Meskwaki, and Kickapoo. [8] It belongs to the Algic language family, and thus descended from Proto-Algic. The Meskwaki and Sauk peoples are two distinct tribal groups.
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are primarily the descendants of those persons listed on the 1925 Baker Rolls of Cherokee Indians. They gained federal recognition as a tribe in the 20th century. The Qualla Boundary is not technically a reservation because the tribe owns the land outright. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is one of ...
The Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians has about 1,200 citizens who live on their Tonawanda Reservation near Akron, New York. [citation needed] The third federally recognized tribe is the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma who live near Miami, Oklahoma.
The Puyallup Tribe of Indians (/ pjuːˈæləp / pew-AL-əp; Twulshootseed: spuyaləpabš, lit. 'people of the bend'; [1][note 1] commonly known as the Puyallup Tribe) [2] is a federally-recognized tribe of Puyallup people from western Washington state, United States. The tribe is primarily located on the Puyallup Indian Reservation, although they also control off-reservation trust lands. The ...
The name "Puyallup" is an anglicization of the Lushootseed word spuyaləpabš. The name means "people of the bend (at the bottom of the river)," [2] literally s√puy=áləp=abš, from the root √puy̓, 'curve'; the suffix =alap, 'leg or hip'; and the suffix =abš, 'people', [1] and refers to the way that the Puyallup people live on the ...