The Yakima Indians are a Native American tribe from the northwestern part of the United States. Many of them live on a reservation in Washington State that covers parts of areas including Mt. Adams, Celilo Falls, Fort Simcoe, Columbia River,…
The Paiute Indians are a Native American tribe that originally settled near the Muddy River and the Virgin River in what is now southeastern Nevada in the US. The Paiute were hunter-gatherers whose spirituality centered on stories of the coyote…
The Ottawa Indians are Native Americans who originally lived in the Lake Huron region of the modern day Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Europeans began settling in the area in the 1600s. In about 1740, the Ottawa Indians became…
The Mohegan Indians are a group of Native Americans who are descended from the larger Pequot Tribe and are mostly concentrated in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The tribe is numerous and members live all over the U.S. and the…
The Assiniboine Indians, who call themselves the Nakota, are a tribe of Native Americans located in the state of Washington and southwestern Canada. They are closely related to the Dakota Sioux, a fact confirmed by the similarity in language. Originally…
The Pueblo people are a large group of Native Americans living in the Southwestern United States. There is no single Pueblo tribe, but rather a large number of tribes or Pueblos that are collectively considered the Pueblo people. The group…
Now located in the United States, the Pascua Yaqui tribe is a group of Native Americans who claim tribal lands just southwest of Tucson, Arizona. In the Yaqui language, Yoeme means “the people.” Many members of the tribe refer to…
The Mohican Tribe, also known as Mahican, is a band of American Indians currently based around Wisconsin. The tribe originally settled in the Hudson River Valley, spanning an area that today includes parts of Vermont, Connecticut, and upstate New York.…
The Cherokee Indians are Native Americans who originally inhabited most of what is now the southeastern United States. Today, more than 200,000 Cherokee Indians live in the Cherokee Nation, an eight-county jurisdictional area in northeastern Oklahoma. As the second largest…
There are several Native American holidays and traditional festivals. Most tribes have their own individual celebrations, but many of the holidays have common themes or purposes. The holidays often celebrate nature, the spiritual world, or people's ancestors. Popular holidays might…