The Ute people are a Native American tribe that originally lived across a wide area of the western United States, including Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado. The tribe members call themselves the Nuciu, which means “the people” in their…
The Yaqui tribe lives in areas of northern Mexico and parts of Arizona. The Sonora region is home to the greatest concentration of Yaqui Indians. There are several thousand individuals who belong to this group. These people speak a language…
The Timucua Indians were an Native American tribe that inhabited the northern part of Florida and southern part of Georgia. They no longer exist as an Indian nation. The Timucua had a culture that was both agrarian and included hunting…
The Powhatan Indians are Native Americans who lived in Virginia centuries ago. These Indians are well known for having conflicts with English settlers of the Jamestown colony in the 1600s. Many people are also familiar with these Native Americans because…
The Penobscot Indians are a tribe of Native Americans that originated mostly in Maine in the United States. Historically, there was a time period when the tribe also had a significant presence in Nova Scotia, Canada. They were part of…
The Pennsylvania Dutch or Pennsylvania Germans are the descendants of several different groups of Germanic people who emigrated from Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands to America before the 19th century. A majority still resides in Pennsylvania but there are…
The Osage Indians are a tribe of Native Americans that originally made their homes in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Today, many members of this tribe still call Oklahoma home. The Osage Indians have a reservation in Oklahoma and have…
The Mohawk people are a Native American tribe historically located in what is now known as the Mohawk Valley in present-day upstate New York in the United States, though their territory expanded to include parts of present-day southeastern Canada. One…
The Lenape Indians — also known as the Lennapi, Lenni Lenape and the Delaware Indians — once lived in the mid-Atlantic region of North America, in what would become New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Part of the Algonquin…
The Hopi Indians are an American Indian tribe that lives in northeastern Arizona on a reservation near the Black Mesa. The Hopi belong to the Pueblo people of the southwestern US. They are known for their terrace farms and deep…