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Chippewa, indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia)Chippewa: see Ojibwa.

Puyallup, indigenous people of North America

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

Oneida, indigenous people of North America

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

Flathead, indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia)Flathead: see Salish.

Fox, indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia)Fox: see Sac and Fox.

Yankton, indigenous people of North America

(Encyclopedia)Yankton and Yanktonnai: see Sioux. ...

Kootenai, indigenous group of North America

(Encyclopedia)Kootenai ko͞otˈənāˌ [key], group of Native North Americans who in the 18th cent. occupied the so-called Kootenai country (i.e., N Montana, N Idaho, and SE British Columbia). Their language is tho...

Ottawa, river, Canada

(Encyclopedia)Ottawa, river, c.700 mi (1,130 km) long, largest tributary of the St. Lawrence River, Canada. It rises in the Laurentian Highlands, SW Que., and flows generally W through La Vérendrye Provincial Park...

Maya, indigenous people of Mexico and Central America

(Encyclopedia)Maya mīˈə, Span. mäˈyä [key], indigenous people of S Mexico and Central America, occupying an area comprising the Yucatán peninsula and much of the present state of Chiapas in Mexico, Guatemala...

Ottawa, cities, United States

(Encyclopedia)Ottawa. 1 City (1990 pop. 17,451), seat of La Salle co., N central Ill., at the confluence of the Fox and Illinois rivers, in a fertile farm area; inc. as a city 1853. The city has diversified agricul...