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INDIAN TRIBE [12 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2022-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inhabitant Names and Names of Peoples
OBS

Ermineskin Tribe : band name taken from the 2002 Indian Registration and Band Lists Directorate's data base of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada(INAC).

OBS

Ermineskin Tribe: band located in Alberta.

OBS

Linguistic group: Algonquian.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d’habitants et noms de peuples
OBS

Ermineskin Tribe : nom de bande entériné par le ministère des Affaires indiennes et du Nord canadien (MAINC).

OBS

Ermineskin Tribe : bande vivant en Alberta.

OBS

Famille linguistique : Algonquien.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inhabitant Names and Names of Peoples
OBS

Gwawaenuk Tribe : band name taken from the 2002 Indian Registration and Band Lists Directorate's data base of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada(INAC).

OBS

Gwawaenuk Tribe: band located in British Columbia.

OBS

Linguistic group: Wakashan.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d’habitants et noms de peuples
OBS

Gwawaenuk Tribe : nom de bande entériné par le ministère des Affaires indiennes et du Nord canadien (MAINC).

OBS

Gwawaenuk Tribe : bande vivant en Colombie-Britannique.

OBS

Famille linguistique : Wakash.

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inhabitant Names and Names of Peoples
DEF

An Amerindian tribe which originally occupied the Delaware River basin (New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York) and later migrated westward scattered in Oklahoma, Kansas, Wisconsin and Ontario. The Delaware spoke a language of the Algonquian language family.

OBS

Plural : Delaware, Delawares. Name of an Indian or an Algonquian tribe, formerly of the Delaware Valley(after Lord De la Warr).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d’habitants et noms de peuples
DEF

[Autochtones] d'Amérique du Nord. Ils parlent une langue du groupe algonquin. Ils ont été placés dans une réserve de l'Oklahoma [États-Unis] à la fin du XIX siècle.

OBS

Nom de l'Autochtone et celui de sa tribu.

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Administration (Indigenous Peoples)
CONT

... they consented that a portion of these Reserves should be appropriated for the general benefit of the Indian Tribes, but when they fully understood what they had consented to ...

OBS

Chippewa Tri-Council Inquiry Coldwater-Narrows Reservation Surrender Claim (March 2003).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration (Peuples Autochtones)
CONT

[...] les bandes consentent à ce qu'une partie de ces réserves soit prise au profit général des tribus indiennes, mais lorsqu'elles ont compris pleinement ce à quoi elles avaient consenti [...]

OBS

Enquête sur la revendication du Conseil tripartite des Chippewas concernant la cession de la réserve de Coldwater-Narrows (Mars 2003).

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Reports
  • Administration (Indigenous Peoples)
  • Aboriginal Law
OBS

Indian Claims Commission, Ottawa, 2005. Cover Title : Blood Tribe/Kainalwa. Report on : Akers surrender(Mediation).

Key term(s)
  • Blood Tribe/Kainalwa. Report on: Akers surrender (Mediation)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de rapports
  • Administration (Peuples Autochtones)
  • Droit autochtone
OBS

Commission des revendications des Indiens, Ottawa, 2005. Titre de la couverture : Tribu des Blood/Kainaiwa. Objet du rapport : Cession Akers (Médiation).

Key term(s)
  • Tribu des Blood/Kainaiwa. Objet du rapport : Cession Akers (Médiation)

Spanish

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Record 6 2010-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A Siouan language spoken by the Winnebago, a North American Indian tribe now living in Green Bay and Nebraska.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue sioux parlée par les Winnebago, peuple indien vivant maintenant au Nebraska et à Green Bay.

OBS

Cette langue est étroitement apparentée aux dialectes dits Chiwere.

Spanish

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Record 7 1995-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A Malayo-Polynesian dialect spoken by the Redjang, a tribe living in Bengkulu province, southern Sumatra, Indonesia, on the upper course of the Musi river. Its written form is of Indian origin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Dialecte malayo-polynésien parlé par les Redjang, une tribu vivant dans la province de Bengkulu, au sud de Sumatra, Indonésie, sur le cours supérieur du fleuve Musi. Sa forme écrite est d'origine indienne.

Spanish

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Record 8 1995-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

The Siouan language spoken by the Osage, a North American Indian tribe of the Dhegiha branch, formerly of western Missouri, now living in northern Oklahoma.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue sioux parlée par les Osage, Amérindiens vivant auparavant au Missouri et maintenant au nord de l'Oklahoma.

Spanish

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Record 9 1994-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Heritage
CONT

The territory of the Western Shoshoni included central and western Idaho, northwestern Utah, central and northeastern Nevada, and Death Valley and Panamint Valley of California, largely barren and unproductive areas. They were sometimes referred to as "Diggers," from their habit of digging plant roots with a stick as an important means of subsistence. Another name applied was Shoshoko, meaning "walkers", to distinguish them from the horse-owning Shoshoni.

OBS

Digger : Said by Powell to be the English translation of Nuanuints, the name of a small tribe near St George, s. w. Utah,. It was the only Paiute tribe practising agriculture, hence the original signification of the name, "digger". In time the name was applied to every tribe known to use roots extensively for food and hence to be "diggers. "It thus included very many of the tribes of California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, tribes speaking widely different languages and embracing perhaps a dozen distinct linguistic stocks. As the root-eaters were supposed to represent a low type of Indian, the term speedily became one of opprobrium [pejorative].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Patrimoine
OBS

Il n'y a pas de traduction officielle pour «Digger» parce qu'il s'agit d'une tribu qui n'aurait jamais eu affaires avec les explorateurs francophones. Les peuples de cette tribu résident pour la plupart dans les États de Nevada et d'Utah dans le sud-ouest des États-Unis. Ils parlent une langue d'origine Uto-Aztèque, langue qui a plus d'affinité avec les autochtones du Mexique qu'avec ceux des Plaines canadiennes. Il existe pourtant un nom français pour désigner la division amérindienne à laquelle les «Diggers» appartiennent : Shoshones de l'Ouest - équivalent le plus proche, quoique imprécis. Au besoin, on peut toujours utiliser le terme anglais en expliquant en bas de page l'étymologie du terme «digger».

Spanish

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Record 10 1993-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

The language spoken by the Chitimacha, a North American Indian tribe of the Macro-Algonkian linguistic phylum inhabiting the Mississippi Delta.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue parlée par les Chitimacha, Amérindiens vivant dans le delta du Mississippi.

Spanish

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Record 11 1985-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Indigenous Arts and Culture
  • National History
DEF

A canvas or leather bag in which a person’s belongings are kept.

OBS

In an Indian context, this is a very large soft leather bag decorated with a pearl pattern, used by a Cheyenne tribe; a Museum piece. [Information given by the Collections Researcher, Canadian Ethnology Service, National Museum of Man. ]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts et culture autochtones
  • Histoires nationales
DEF

Grand sac de bannerie ou de tissu utilisé le plus souvent pour faire le marché.

Spanish

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Record 12 1985-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geographical Names
  • Anthropology
OBS

An Algonkian-speaking Indian tribe of the western prairies(the southern branch of the Blackfoot) who once occupied the region around the present city of Lethbridge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms géographiques
  • Anthropologie
OBS

U.S.A., famille des Sioux, décimée au XIXe siècle.

Key term(s)
  • Piégan
  • Piégane

Spanish

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