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  2. Métis - Wikipedia

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    Métis people in the United States are a specific culture and community, who descend from unions between Native American and early European colonist parents – usually Indigenous women who married French, and later Scottish or English, men, who worked as fur trappers and traders during the 17th to 19th centuries in the fur trade era.

  3. Plains Indians - Wikipedia

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    Stumickosúcks of the Kainai. George Catlin, 1832 Comanches capturing wild horses with lassos, approximately July 16, 1834 Spotted Tail of the Lakota Sioux. Plains Indians or Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies are the Native American tribes and First Nation band governments who have historically lived on the Interior Plains (the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies) of ...

  4. Capote (garment) - Wikipedia

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    Capote (garment) The River Road by Cornelius Krieghoff, 1855 (Three habitants wearing capotes) A capote ( French: [kapɔt]) or capot ( French: [kapo]) is a long wrap-style wool coat with a hood. From the early days of the North American fur trade, both indigenous peoples and European Canadian settlers fashioned wool blankets into "capotes" as a ...

  5. Mandan - Wikipedia

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    Hidatsa, Arikara. The Mandan are a Native American tribe of the Great Plains who have lived for centuries primarily in what is now North Dakota. They are enrolled in the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation. About half of the Mandan still reside in the area of the reservation; the rest reside around the United States and in ...

  6. Canadian fashion - Wikipedia

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    Canadian fashion. Canadian fashion refers to the styles, trends, design, and production of clothing, footwear, accessories, and other expressions of fashion in Canada and the polities it is descended from . Since time immemorial, the Indigenous cultures of Canada designed clothing and accessories for practical application in contention with the ...

  7. Gender roles among the Indigenous peoples of North America

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    Traditional Apache gender roles have many of the same skills learned by both females and males. All children traditionally learn how to cook, follow tracks, skin leather, sew stitches, ride horses, and use weapons. [2] Typically, women gather vegetation such as fruits, roots, and seeds. Women would often prepare the food.

  8. Saulteaux - Wikipedia

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    The Saulteaux (pronounced / ˈsɔːltoʊ /, SAWL-toh or in imitation of the French pronunciation / ˈsoʊtoʊ /, SOH-toh; also written Salteaux, Saulteau and other variants ), otherwise known as the Plains Ojibwe, are a First Nations band government in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.

  9. Indigenous peoples in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous peoples in Canada ( French: Peuples autochtones au Canada, also known as Aboriginals) [2] are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada. They comprise the First Nations, [3] Inuit, [4] and Métis. [5] Although "Indian" is a term still commonly used in legal documents, the descriptors "Indian" and "Eskimo" have fallen ...