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American Indian Heritage Month
Special Features
- Slideshow: Village Life on the Northern Great
Plains New!
- Find images and information about Village Life on the Northern Great
Plains, including buffalo, teepees, wheatfields, and more.
- Slideshow: Native American Tribes of the Great
Plains New!
- Find images and information about Native American Tribes of the
Great Plains, including Comanche, Hidatsa, Blackfoot, and more.
- Native American Proverbs and
Wisdom
- With a long history, rich culture, and more than 300 spoken
languages, the wisdom of Native American tribes has been passed down
through the centuries
- Top Ten American Indian
Novels
- Our list of popular novels that portray American Indian life and
heritage
- American Indian Heritage
Month Origins
- It's origins go back to 1915, when the first "American Indian Day"
was celebrated
- American Indian
versus Native American
- A once-heated issue has sorted itself out
- American Indian Quotes
- From Sitting Bull to Sherman Alexie
- Glossary of American Indian
Terms
- AIM, potlatch, ghost dance, travois, kachina, coup, hogan, and
more
- American Indian Place Names
- About half of states' names come from Native American words
- American Indian Loan Words
- Bayou, chipmunk, pecan, and squash are derived from American Indian
words
- Notable American Indians
- Native Americans bios, from Alexie to Wovoka
- Selected American Indian
Tribes
- From the Abenaki to the Yurok
- Navajo
Code Talkers
- The code that was never broken
- American Indians by the
Numbers
- Nearly 6-in-10 American Indian and Alaska native households own
their own home
- Sacajawea Golden Dollar
- The Golden Dollar coins debuted in January 2000
Fun Stuff
- American Indian Art and
Technology Quiz New!
- What is the art form called in which pieces of cloth and ribbon are
sewn onto leather or textiles in colorful patterns?
- American Indian War History
Quiz New!
- What U.S. general defeated the Shawnee tribe at Tippecanoe in order
to settle the region that became Indiana?
- American Indian Heritage
Crossword
- 5 Across: Member of an indigenous people of northeastern
Nebraska
- Notable American Indians
Quiz
- What Shoshone woman acted as an interpreter and guide for Lewis and
Clark?
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