Native American

The list of items below have been tagged as part of the Native American historical collection here at AccessGenealogy.

A- New Jersey Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements

A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Ahasimus  A village in N. New Jersey in 1655, probably of the Unami Delawares (N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., XIII, 55, 1881). As the name of a later white settlement the word occurs in a number of forms. Asomoches. A division of the New Jersey Delawares formerly living on the E. bank of Delaware r., between Salem and Camden. In 1648 they were estimated at 100 warriors.

A- Michigan Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements

A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Aegakotcheising (Aegakötchëising). An Ottawa village in Michigan in 1851. Schoolcraft, Irid. Tribes, I, 478, 1851. Angwassag. A Chippewa village near St Charles, Saginaw co., Mich., with per haps 50 inhabitants in 1894

A- Maine Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements

A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Ammoncongan. A village, probably be longing to the Abnaki, on the N. E. side of Presumpscot r., at Saccarappa falls, Cumberland co., Me. Deed of 1657 in Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., I, 118, 1865. Aquadocta. The dwelling place of “a tribe of Indians” in 1690, living westward from Casco and Saco, Me. , and seemingly allied with the Abnaki. Niles (ca. 1761) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. ,3d s. , vi, 217, 1837. Asnela. A small island in Penobscot r., … Read more

A- Maryland Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements

A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Acquaskac. A village situated in 1608 on the w. bank of Patuxent r., St Marys co., Md. The word may be related to Aquascogoc and Weckquaesgoek. Askimimkansen. A village, perhaps connected with the Nanticoke, formerly on an upper E. branch of Pocomoke r., probably in Worcester co., Md. Herrman, map (1670) in Rep. on Boundary Line between Va. and Md., 1873. Assacomoco. A village about 1610, probably near Patuxent r., Md. (Pory in Smith (1629), Virginia, u, 63, repr. 1819). … Read more

A- Indiana Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements

A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Abercronk. A former (Potawatomi?) village on Lake Michigan, in North East Porter County, Indiana. Hough, map in Indiana Geol. Rep. for 1882-3, 1883. Anderson’s Town. A former Delaware village on the s. side of White r., about the present Anderson, Madison co., Ind. (Hough, map in hid. Geol. Rep., 1883). Named from the principal chief of the Delawares of Indiana about 1810-20. Ashkum. A Potawatomi village, named from its chief, on the N. side of Eel r., about Denver, Miami … Read more

A- Idaho Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements

A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Akiyenik (Aqkīyē′nik, people of the leggings). A tribe of the Upper Kutenai living on L. Pend d’Oreille, Idaho. Boas in 5th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 10, 1889. Alpowna. A former Nez Percé village at the mouth of a creek that flows into Snake r. from the N., below Lewiston, Idaho. At this point the people mixed with the Paloos, hence more than one language was spoken in the village. (A. C. F.) Assiminehkon. By the treaty of Prairie du … Read more