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The Oglala Sioux Tribe – South Dakota. The majority of this Indigenous live on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Oglala in the Lakota language means “to scatter one’s own”. They have given the Sioux and the United States two of the most famous Indigenous leaders: Chief Red Cloud and Chief Crazy Horse. Black…

The American Indian Movement [AIM] I wonder when we as a nation will face with honesty our real history and admit and confess what people who were convinced of ‘manifest destiny’ did to the people who were here in the first place. How can you ‘discover’ someplace where there are already people living. In 1973…

The Chinook Indian Nation. The Chinook Indian Nation is made up of the five western-most Chinookan speaking tribes at the mouth of the Columbia River. Their nearly 70-year-old constitution codifies who they are and identifies their five constituent tribes – the Clatsop and Cathlamet (Kathlamet) of present-day Oregon and the Lower Chinook, Wahkiakum (Waukikum) and…

The state of Oklahoma. The word itself comes from two Choctaw words: okla-humma (Red People). The nickname ‘The Sooner State’ refers to the non-white people who staked claims on the land before the official opening of lands in the Oklahoma Territory. The history of the state is completely involved with the Host Nation People who…

Kvalsund (NorthernSami: Fálesnuorri and Kven: Valasnuora) is a former municipality in the old Finnmark county in Norway. The municipality is now part of Hammerfest Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county. The municipality existed from 1869 until its dissolution in 2020. Fishing and historically Whaling were major ‘industries’ of the village. The name comes from old…