• The Society of American Indians (1911–1923) was the first national American Indian rights organization run by and for American Indians. The Society pioneered...
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    Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples of the United States or portions...
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    Native Americans in the United States, who are also referred to as "Indians" or "American Indians". With a population of more than 4.9 million, Indian Americans...
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  • establishment of League of Indians of Canada in 1919, Canada's first Aboriginal organization that was national in scope. The Society of American Indians was the...
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    assimilation of Native Americans ("American Indians"). "Better, far better for the Indians," he said, "had there never been a Bureau." As a result of the controversy...
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    Confederate states of America, Republic of Texas, Mexico and the United States of America against various American Indian tribes in North America. These conflicts...
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    An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government...
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    were commonly called American Indians, or simply Indians domestically and since the late 20th century the term Native American came into common use....
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  • The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is an American Indian and Alaska Native rights organization. It was founded in 1944 to represent the tribes...
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    travel of American Indians off Indian reservations. Since American Indians did not obtain U.S. citizenship until 1924, they were considered wards of the...
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    Charles Edwin Dagenett (category Carlisle Indian Industrial School alumni)
    founder and leader of the Society of American Indians, the first national American Indian rights organization run by and for American Indians. He also served...
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  • Black Indians are Native American people – defined as Native American due to being affiliated with Native American communities and being culturally Native...
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  • Hiram Chase (category Members of the Society of American Indians)
    leader of the Society of American Indians, the first national American Indian rights organization run by and for American Indians. The Society pioneered...
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    Native Americans. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-87195-280-6. Retrieved February 1, 2015. "Photos Of American Indians From...
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    Zitkala-Sa (category Members of the Society of American Indians)
    traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking readership. She was co-founder of the National Council of American Indians in 1926, which...
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    continuity of culture as Indians, regardless of mixed ancestry. Such a binary division of society in the South increased after the American Civil War and...
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    Laura Cornelius Kellogg (category Members of the Society of American Indians)
    descendant of distinguished Oneida leaders, was a founder of the Society of American Indians. Kellogg was an advocate for the renaissance and sovereignty of the...
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    The Peoria are a Native American people. They are enrolled in the federally recognized Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma headquartered in Miami, Oklahoma...
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    Henry Standing Bear (category Members of the Society of American Indians)
    Lakota Chief. A founding member of the Society of American Indians (1911–1923), he recruited and commissioned Polish-American sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski...
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    language, we might look like Indians and sound like Indians, but we won’t be Indians." Between 1982 and 1993, most American manuals of style came to agree that...
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    Fayette Avery McKenzie (category American educators)
    to study problems of Native Americans. In 1911, he was a European-American co-founder and a leader of the Society of American Indians (SOI), which was...
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    Lenape (redirect from Delaware Indians)
    History of the Delaware Tribe". Delaware Tribe of Indians. Retrieved December 28, 2017. "Tribal Directory: Lenape". National Congress of American Indians. Retrieved...
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    Dennison Wheelock (category Members of the Society of American Indians)
    founding members of the Society of American Indians, the first national American Indian rights organization developed and run by American Indians. He had read...
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    Choctaw (redirect from Chacktaw Indians)
    recognized tribes: the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and Jena Band of Choctaw Indians in Louisiana. The Choctaw were first...
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  • International Indian Treaty Council, an arm of AIM, elected to collectively identify as "American Indian", at the United Nations Conference on Indians in the...
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    Paleo-Indians were the first peoples who entered and subsequently inhabited the Americas towards the end of the Late Pleistocene period. The prefix paleo-...
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  • Gay American Indians (GAI) was a gay rights organization founded in San Francisco in 1975 by Randy Burns (Northern Paiute) and Barbara May Cameron (Hunkpapa...
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    The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded...
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  • During the American Indian Wars of the mid to late 19th century, Native American warriors of the Great Plains, sometimes referred to as braves in contemporary...
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    directly to Indians as individuals. The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 was also part of Americanization policy; it gave full citizenship to all Indians living...
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