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Chippewa, indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia)Chippewa: see Ojibwa.

Delaware, indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia)Delaware dĕlˈəwâr, –wər [key], English name given several closely related Native American groups of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American langua...

Utah , indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia)Utah, Native North Americans: see Ute. ...

Puyallup, indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia)Puyallup: see Coast Salish under Salish. ...

Omaha, indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia)Omaha ōˈməhä, –hô [key], Native Americans whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). They, with the Ponca, migrated from t...

Oneida, indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia)Oneida: see Iroquois Confederacy. ...

Ottawa, indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia)Ottawa ōdäˈwə [key], Native Americans whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). Traditionally of the Eastern Wood...

Flathead, indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia)Flathead: see Salish.

Fox, indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia)Fox: see Sac and Fox.

Huron, indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia)Huron hyo͝orˈänˌ [key], confederation of four Native North American groups who spoke the Wyandot language, which belongs to the Iroquoian branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native Am...