They are a federally recognized tribe: the Quileute Tribe of the Quileute Reservation. The Quileute people lost their territory after signing the Quinault Treaty in 1855, but regained one square mile after President Cleveland signed an executive order creating the Quileute Indian Reservation.
For generations, Shoshone, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Ute, Lakota and Crow people gathered plants, visited family and tracked game along watercourses and over mountain passes in the seasonal subsistence patterns of their lives.
A swift overview of the Region's tribes includes the O'odham, Yaqui, Yuman and Pai Tribes of Arizona's low and mid deserts and Grand Canyon, and the Apache of the mid-deserts and mountain forests. The Hopi live on Arizona's Colorado Plateau mesas. Nevada has many bands and tribes of Washoe, Shoshone and Paiute people.
In addition to the Tupi and Tapuia, two other Indigenous mega-groups were commonly identified in the interior: the Caribs, who inhabited much of what is now northwestern Brazil, including both shores of the Amazon River up to the delta, and the Nuaraque group, whose constituent tribes inhabited several areas, including ...
These groups include the Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Nuxalk, Coast Salish and the Nuu-chah-nulth (formerly called the Nootka - a misnomer originally used by Captain James Cook). The Nuu-chah-nulth and Kwakiutl are branches of the Wakashan language family. The sea offered abundant food. The most important was salmon.
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Reservations are unevenly distributed throughout the country, the majority being situated west of the Mississippi River and occupying lands that were first reserved by treaty (Indian Land Grants) from the public domain.
Here are the Apaches, whose very name once brought terror to westward bound settlers; the peaceful Hopis of the sky-reaching mesa villages; the Navajos, now the largest Indian tribe; the desert-dwelling Papagos; the agrarian Pimas; and the canyon-dwelling Havasupais and Hualapais.
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The Navajo Nation is the largest Indian reservation in the United States, comprising about 16 million acres, or about 25,000 square miles, approximately the size of the state of West Virginia.