Amahami Tribe
Amahami Indian Tribe History
Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico
Hodge, Frederick Webb, Compiler. The Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Bureau of American Ethnology, Government Printing Office. 1906.
Allakaweah Tribe
Allakaweah Indians (Al-la-ká’-we-áh, ‘Paunch Indians’) The name applied by a tribe which Lewis and Clark located on Yellowstone and Bighorn Rivers, Montana, with 800 warriors and 2,300 souls. This is exactly the country occupied at the same time by the Crows, and although these latter are mentioned as distinct, it is probably that they were
Algonquian Indians
Algonquian Family (adapted from the name of the Algonkin tribe). A linguistic stock which formerly occupied a more extended area than any other in North America. Their territory reached from the east shore of Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains and front Churchill River to Pamlico sound. The east parts of this territory were separated by
Algonquian Indian Bands, Gens and Clans
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry. Often very little information is known or they no longer exist. We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Atchaterakangouen. An Algonquian tribe or band living in the interior of Wisconsin in 1672, near the Mascouten and Kickapoo.
Akonapi Tribe
Akonapi Indians. A people mentioned in the ancient Walam Olum record of the Delawares , with whom they fought during their migrations. Brinton, who identities them with the Akowini of the same tradition, thinks it probable that they lived immediately north of Ohio River in Ohio or Indiana. He regards Akowini as “correspondent” with Sinako,
Agawam Tribe
Agawam Indians (Agawom) (fish-curing [place]), Hewitt. A name of frequent occurrence in south New England and on the Long Island, and by which was designated at least 3 Indian villages or tribes in Massachusetts. The most important was at Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts. The site was sold by the chief in 1638. Its jurisdiction included
Adshusheer Tribe
Adshusheer Indians. There is but a single mention of the Adshusheer. Lawson tells of “the Shoccorie Indians, mixed with the Enoe and those of the nation of the Adshusheer, ruled by Enoe Will, a Shocorrie,”
Adirondack Tribe
Adirondack Indians, Adirondack First Nation. The Algonquian tribes North of the St. Lawrence River with which the Iroquois were acquainted.
Adario, Tionontate Indian Chief, aka Kondiaronk
Adario, Tionontate Indian Chief, aka Kondiaronk, was a war chief of the Beaver Clan of the Turtle phatry, and Tribal Orator. His totem signature on the 1701 Treaty is a beaver pelt
Adai Tribe
Adai Indians. The tribe-was first encountered in 1529 by Cabeza de Vaca, who speaks of them, under the name Atayos, as living inland from the Gulf of Mexico
Acquintanacsnak Tribe
Acquintanacsnak Indians. A tribe or sub-tribe which Capt. John Smith locates on the west bank of Patuxent river, St Mary’s County, Maryland. They were near to and in friendship with the Patuxent and Mattapanient, the 3 tribes numbering 200 warriors. The principal village bore the tribal name and is supposed by Bozman to have been
Acolapissa Tribe
Acolapissa Indians. An tribe, of Choctaw lineage, formerly living on Lake Ponchartrain, about the coast lagoons, and on the Mississippi, in Louisiana.
Achomawi Tribe
Achomawi Indians: A division of the Shastan family formerly occupying the Pit River country of N. E. California.
Achiligonan Tribe
Achiligonan Indians. A tribe or band living between 1640 and 1670 on the north shore of Lake Huron, about the mouth of French river and westward nearly to Sault Ste Marie. In 1670 they were attached to the mission at the Sault. In the Jesuit Relation of 1640 their position is given on the north
Accominta Tribe
Accominta Indians (possibly related to the Chippewa ä‛ku‛kŭmiga‛k, a locative expression referring to the place where land and water meet, hence, specifically, shore, shore-line – Wm. Jones.) The name was given by the Indians to York River. A small tribe or band of the Pennacook confederacy, commonly called Agamenticus or Accominticus, that occupied a village