Did You Know:


THE LEGEND OF THE EAGLES FEATHER
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soaring eagle


Native American heritage and legends have a strong impact on Indian lives.
Belief in the strength and value of the Eagle soars above many others..
Legend held that if an Eagle feather fell to the ground, a great warrior had fallen..
Many powwow ceremonies have been unexpectedly halted when a feather has fallen..
This was in honor of the great warrior..
Before retrieving this feather, a special ceremony had to be performed to honor the unknown warrior..





There are 26 States with Names Originated From Native American:


They are as follows:


Alabama: Alaska: Arizona: Arkansas: Connecticut: Idaho: Illinois:


Iowa: Kansas:Kentucky: Massachusetts: Michigan: Minnesota:


Mississippi: Missouri: Nebraska: New Mexico: North Dakota: Ohio:


Oklahoma: SouthDakota: Tennessee: Texas: Utah: Wisconsin: Wyoming:






True Facts about Native Americans:



Did you know that 1 in every 130 people living in the U.S. today is a Native American?
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During World War II, the Japanese army could not break the "secret code" of the U.S. Military.
The "secret code" was simply a group of Navajo volunteers speaking their Native American
language on their field radios!

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Did you know that the names of over half of the states in the USA came from Native American languages?

For example:
Utah is the Ute tribe's name for themselves in their language.
Oklahoma means "red people" or "home of the red people" in the Choctaw language.
Kentucky means "planted field" in the Iroquois language.
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Washington DC, our nation's capital, is built on the banks of a river called the "Potomac," which is a Native American word for "where the goods are brought in,
Miami,Cuba and Chicago are a few more examples of names that are derived from Native American language.

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Christopher Columbus, was very surprised to observe Indians holding burning leaves in their mouths.
The Indians called those burning leaves tobacos.

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Native Americans used pine sap to help heal cuts.

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Native Americans used witch hazel tea, as a remedy for sprains and bruises.
And is still in use today.

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" Squash" comes from a Native American word, "isquoutersquash," which means "green thing eaten green."

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Native Americans had developed a process where they dried cactus-eating insects and ground them up so they could be turned into red dye called cochineal.
This Indian dye,was used in the New World in the late 16th century.
And the British used it to dye their uniforms red in the Revolutionary War.


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