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Seminole

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Current Location: Florida and Oklahoma. Historic Locations: Florida. Culture: Known for their resistance against U.S. troops in the Seminole Wars. Notable Facts: One of the Five Civilized Tribes.

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Cheyenne

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Current Location: Montana and Oklahoma. Historic Locations: Great Plains. Culture: Divided into two groups: Northern and Southern Cheyenne. Notable Facts: Known for their role in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

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Osage

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Current Location: Oklahoma. Historic Locations: Missouri River valley. Culture: Known for their mastery of the bow. Notable Facts: In the 1920s, became wealthy due to oil found on their reservation land.

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Sioux

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Current Location: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota. Historic Locations: Great Plains. Culture: Consists of three major divisions (Eastern Dakota, Western Dakota, and the Lakota). Notable Facts: Known for their role in the Sioux Wars.

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Pueblo

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Current Location: New Mexico and Arizona. Historic Locations: Southwestern United States. Culture: Known for their adobe dwellings and cliff-houses. Notable Facts: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was a successful resistance against Spanish colonization.

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Creek

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Current Location: Oklahoma and Alabama. Historic Locations: Southeastern United States. Culture: Known for their mound-building. Notable Facts: Partook in the Creek War against American expansion.

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Hopi

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Current Location: Northeastern Arizona. Historic Locations: Puebloan ancestors in the Southwestern United States. Culture: Known for their kachina dolls and pueblo architecture. Notable Facts: One of the oldest living cultures in North America.

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Zuni

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Current Location: New Mexico. Historic Locations: Zuni River valley. Culture: Known for their detailed jewelry and fetish carvings. Notable Facts: The Zuni people are believed to be descendants from the Ancestral Puebloans.

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Arikara

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Current Location: North Dakota. Historic Locations: Along the Missouri River. Culture: Known for their earthlodge dwellings and corn agriculture. Notable Facts: The Arikara War in 1823 was one of the first Plains Indian wars between the United States and a Native American tribe.

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Mohawk

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Current Location: New York, Ontario, and Quebec. Historic Locations: Northeastern United States and Southeastern Canada. Culture: Part of the Iroquois Confederacy known for steelwork in skyscraper construction. Notable Facts: Known as the 'Keepers of the Eastern Door' of the Iroquois Confederacy.

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Ojibwe (Chippewa)

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Current Location: Great Lakes region, United States and Canada. Historic Locations: Great Lakes area. Culture: Known for their birch bark canoes, and wild rice gathering. Notable Facts: Anishinaabe language is one of the most widely spoken Native American languages today.

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Lakota

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Current Location: Primarily in South Dakota. Historic Locations: Great Plains. Culture: One of the three major divisions of the Sioux people, known for their warrior culture. Notable Facts: Sitting Bull, a notable historical figure, was a Lakota chief.

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Blackfoot

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Current Location: Montana, USA and Alberta, Canada. Historic Locations: Great Plains. Culture: Known for their buffalo hunting. Notable Facts: Consist of four distinct nations.

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Choctaw

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Current Location: Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Historic Locations: Southeastern United States. Culture: Known for their skill in agriculture. Notable Facts: One of the Five Civilized Tribes; provided code talkers in World War I.

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Mohican

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Current Location: Wisconsin and New York. Historic Locations: Hudson River Valley. Culture: Traditionally a semi-nomadic tribe with farming, hunting, and fishing. Notable Facts: The novel 'Last of the Mohicans' is named after the tribe but does not accurately depict Mohican history.

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Nez Perce

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Current Location: Idaho. Historic Locations: Columbia River Plateau. Culture: Renowned horse breeders, known for the Appaloosa horse. Notable Facts: Fought in the Nez Perce War in an attempt to flee to Canada and avoid relocation.

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Iroquois

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Current Location: New York, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Canada. Historic Locations: Northeastern United States. Culture: Confederacy of six tribes known for longhouses. Notable Facts: Their democratic governance influenced the United States Constitution.

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Tlingit

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Current Location: Southeast Alaska. Historic Locations: Coastal areas of Alaska and British Columbia. Culture: Known for their totem poles and potlatch ceremonies. Notable Facts: Skilled in navigating and fishing the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest.

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Cherokee

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Current Location: Oklahoma and North Carolina. Historic Locations: Southeastern United States. Culture: Matrilineal society, known for the syllabary script. Notable Facts: Experienced the Trail of Tears during forced relocation.

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Crow

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Current Location: Montana. Historic Locations: Yellowstone River region. Culture: Known for their elaborate headdresses. Notable Facts: The Crow were allies of the United States Army during the Sioux Wars.

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Yupik

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Current Location: Western Alaska. Historic Locations: Bering Sea coast. Culture: Subsistence lifestyle focused on fishing and hunting marine mammals. Notable Facts: They are not to be confused with the Inuit, though they share similar arctic environments.

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Navajo

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Current Location: Southwestern United States. Historic Locations: Southwestern United States, particularly Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. Culture: Known for weaving, silversmithing, and sandpainting. Notable Facts: The largest federally recognized tribe in the U.S. as of the 21st century.

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Apache

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Current Location: Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona. Historic Locations: Southwestern United States. Culture: Known for their guerrilla warfare tactics. Notable Facts: Geronimo was a prominent leader from the Chiricahua Apache.

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Shoshone

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Current Location: Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and California. Historic Locations: Across the western United States. Culture: Known for their involvement with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Notable Facts: Sacagawea, a Shoshone woman, joined and helped guide the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

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Klamath

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Current Location: Oregon. Historic Locations: Around Upper Klamath Lake. Culture: Traditionally dependent on fishing from the lake and local streams. Notable Facts: Treaty with the U.S. in 1864 established the Klamath Reservation.

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