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Native American Languages
Information and translations for Native American languages. Please note each tribe has its own language, and there is no single "Native American" language.
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What does reliable results mean?
Reliable results are results that are reasonably the same. e.g. if you did the same test 3 times and you got 13.1, 13.3, 13.3. this would be reliable
What does tiyospaye in the Dakota language?
Tiyospaye means a person's circle of relatives. You can be born or married into someone's tiyospaye
What is the Navajo or Diné word for the season of the year called spring in English?
The Navajo word is daan or daango.
It lines the lumen of the vessels, and is a thin layer of endothelium.
How do you write and say 'Free Spirit' in Mohican?
There is no such language or tribe as Mohican. That was an idea invented by James Fennimore Cooper for a series of books; he had heard of real tribes called the Mahican and the Mohegan and simply combined them to create a fake tribe.
In Mohegan there is no direct equivalent, you would say cunayuw - literally "he is crazy". "He is free" is nayawiyuw.
What were the three major Native American language groups in Virginia?
algonquian,siouan,and iroquoian
How do you say 'house' or 'peaceful retreat' in Indian language?
There are about 450 Languages spoken in India and about 700 different Native American languages.
But there is no such language as "Indian".
It pretty much the climax of indian mistreatment. For most of its history, America has treated as animals, constantly expelling them from their land and treating them in just absolutly horrifying conditions. The Indian removal act was by far the worst act passed by the Federal government against native americans.
How do you say hello in lumbee?
no such lumbee language exist,they have always spoken just English or Scottish
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The Lumbee/Croatan have no native American Indian language ,have no Indian words or names and have never spoken any native American language.
The people now calling themselves Lumbee are a mixed race group who are mostly White-Black with a smidge of Native blood(of indeterminate tribal affiliation). They had to downplay their African or mixed heritage and highlight their "Native American" identity because of the intense racism in the past. They have been identified as mixed ancestry from the 1700s and were speaking ENGLISH even in the earliest historical references. A considerable amount of genealogical research shows the majority of the founding "Lumbee" families descend from free black males and white females that came down from early Virginia settlements.
They participated in colonial life as "individuals" not as any recognized tribe. Paying taxes, buying property, mustering in colonial and American militias same as all other colonials.
Early colonial records list Lumbee ancestors "as is all "free negors "and mulattos" on kings land and that "no Indians "live in Robeson County area.
They were never identified as an intact tribe that entered into a treaty with the US. They initially put forward an origin story that they were the descendants of the "Lost Colony." Then it was Croatan then a Cherokee origin
In response to the Southern White backlash to Reconstruction and the tightening of racial laws, the people now calling themselves Lumbee really began to assert their Indian identity. They petitioned for federal recognition as Cherokees. Then a splinter group began to identify as Tuscarora. Now they claim to be descended from Cheraw or "Siouan" people. Their claim of origins has historically been changing for centuries. The Lumbee DNA project indicates that the Native American element makes up only a small component of their ancestry (both on the mtDNA and Y-DNA lines). The bottom line is they are a distinct people with some small degree of mixed ancestry, but there is really no indigenous culture or Language that can be pointed to and definitely no "full bloods" around.The Cheraw origin is a new theory but has no scientific backing.The cheraw went extinct in the early 1700,s.The Lumbee in 2010 joined with a Casino firm Lewin Int.LLC to work on getting gaming and a Casino.
What is the native Alaskan word for dog?
The native Alaskan word for dog varies among different Indigenous languages. In the Inupiat language, the word for dog is "qimmiq," while in the Yupik language, it is "qipmiq." Each Indigenous group has its own term, reflecting the rich linguistic diversity of Alaska's Native cultures.
What is the meaning of the Cherokee word ochouo?
That is certainly not a Cherokee word, since Cherokee has no "ch" sound. It would be totally meaningless to a Cherokee.
Where in California did the yuma indians lived?
The Yuma lived in small camps along both sides of the lower Colorado river and north as far as the Grand Canyon, using the water to flood and irrigate their crops. They were growers and gatherers rather than hunters, but some hunting was done to supplement the diet.
How does one say butterfly in the cree language?
Cree has many different words meaning "butterfly", including:
- kamâmak
- mimikwâs
- kamâmakos
How did the First Nations of the Mackenzie and Yukon River Basins use buffaloes?
the First Nations of the Mackenzie and Yukon River Basins used buffaloes to make clothing help to make rituals and common beliefs
