Indigenous peoples of North America Indigenous peoples of North America Acaxee, A Taracahitian tribe or group of tribes in the Sierra Madre Occidental in eastern Sinaloa and NW Durango. Their culture was based on horticulture and the exploitation of wild animal and plant life. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acaxee"
Cáhita is a group of North American Indians, mainly of the Mayo and Yaqui tribes, found chiefly in Mexico, belonging to the Piman family, and numbering some 40,000. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cáhita"
The Eastern Woodlands was a cultural area of the indigenous peoples of North America. The Eastern Woodlands extended roughly from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River, and from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico, which is now the eastern United States and Canada. The Great Plains culture area is to the west; the Subarctic area to the north. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eastern Woodlands"
The Eskimos, or Esquimaux, are people who inhabit the circumpolar region (excluding Scandinavia and most of Russia, but including the easternmost portions of Russia). There are two main groups of Eskimos: the Inuit (in northern Alaska, Canada and Greenland) and the Yupik (of western Alaska and the Russian Far East). ...more on Wikipedia about "Eskimo"
The Indian Shaker Church is a Christian denomination founded in 1881 by Squaxin logger John Slocum in Washington. The Indian Shaker Church is a unique blend of American Indian, Catholic, and Protestant beliefs and practices. ...more on Wikipedia about "Indian Shaker Church"
Inuit ( Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, singular Inuk or Inuq / ᐃᓄᒃ) is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic coasts of Siberia, Alaska, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec, Labrador and Greenland. Until fairly recent times, there has been a remarkable homogeneity in the culture throughout this area, which traditionally relied on fish, sea mammals, and land animals for food, heat, light, clothing, tools, and shelter. Their language is Inuktitut. ...more on Wikipedia about "Inuit"
The Inuvialuit ( Inuit language: real human beings) are Inuit people who live in the western Canadian Arctic region. They are descendants of the Thule people, of which other descendants inhabit Russia and parts of Scandinavia. Their homeland - the Inuvialuit Settlement Region - covers the Arctic Ocean coastline area from the Alaskan border east to Amundsen Gulf and includes the western Canadian Arctic Islands. The land was demarked in 1984 by the Inuvialuit Final Agreement. ...more on Wikipedia about "Inuvialuit"
Piman refers to both a Native American ethnic group that presently inhabit an area in southern Arizona and to a group of languages within the Uto-Aztecan family that are spoken by ethnic groups spanning from Arizona in the north to Durango, Mexico in the south. ...more on Wikipedia about "Piman"
The Seris ( Seri: comcáac) are an indigenous group of Sonora, Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia about "Seri"
The Solano are a people in south Texas and north Mexico. Also, the Solano language, a little known extinct language spoken by the Solano. ...more on Wikipedia about "Solano (people)"
The Tepehuán (Tepehuanes or Tepehuanos) are an indigenous ethnic group in northwest Mexico, whose villages at the time of Spanish conquest spanned a large territory along the Sierra Madre Occidental from Chihuahua and Durango in the north to Jalisco in the south. The southern Tepehuán community included an isolated settlement ( Azqueltán) in the middle of Huichol territory in the Bolaños River canyon. The southern Tepehuán were historically refered to as Tepecanos. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tepehuán"
The Tlaxcaltecs or "Tlacullos" were an indigenous group of the Nahuatl culture that inhabited the area in Meso-America that approximates the territory currently known as the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico. Tlaxcalla means "place of the tortillas," though the original tribal name was Texcallac. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tlaxcaltec"
The Yazoo tribe were a small Native American tribe who lived on the lower course of Yazoo River, Mississippi, in close connection with several other tribes, the most important of which was the Tonica. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yazoo tribe"
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