| Kalispel |
Kalispel
Tribe
The Kalispel Tribe of Indians, one of the
oldest Native cultures of the Pend Oreille River, possesses a bright
vision for the future. Through perseverance, we have overcome numerous
cultural, economic and social hardships facing our sovereign nation.
http://www.kalispeltribe.com/index2.html
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| Karuk |
Karuk, The People of the
Klamath
Scientists have discovered evidence suggesting
that the Karuk people have lived on the Klamath River for more than
10,000 years. Actually, the people have been there since the beginning
http://www.karuk.net/
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Kawaiisu
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The
Kawaiisu Tribe
The Kawaiisu are a Southern California Native
American tribe who are well known for elaborate basketry, culture and
rock art. The name "Kawaiisu"was given to the tribe by neighboring
people and over the course of academic study has been the label that
is most used. The Kawaiisu language is unique in pronunciation and structure
and is maintained amongst tribal members to this day.
http://home.att.net/~write2kate/artbyhorseindex.html
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| Kickapoo |
Kickapoo
History
Before contact with Europeans, the Kickapoo
lived in northwest Ohio and southern Michigan in the areabetween Lake
Erie and Lake Michigan.
http://www.dickshovel.com/kick.html
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Kickapoo
Language
Kickapoo is an Algonquian language
closely related to Mesquakie-Sauk (some linguists even consider it a
dialect of Mesquakie-Sauk). Unlike Mesquakie-Sauk, however, Kickapoo
is a tone language--the high or low pitch of a vowel can change a Kickapoo
word's meaning. Kickapoo is spoken in three distinct language areas,
Kansas, Oklahoma, and northern Mexico, by a combined 800 people. The
language is most vigorous in Mexico, where some children are still learning
it at home; in America Kickapoo is endangered, though revitalization
efforts are ongoing. In the past, Kickapoo Indians also used a unique
linguistic code called "whistle speech" to convey simple utterances,
but today it is a lost art.
http://www.native-languages.org/kickapoo.htm
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| Kiowa |
Kiowa
Drawings
The Smithsonian's collections of Kiowa drawings
include works of art on buffalo hide and more recent examples on paper,
a medium that Kiowa artists adopted after it became widely available
in the late nineteenth century. Together, these drawings offer a unique
source of information on tribal social and artistic traditions.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/kiowa/kiowa.htm
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Kiowa
Orthography
An Unofficial Practical Orthography
for the Kiowa Language
http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~olsalmi/kiowa.html
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| Klallam |
Klallam
Language
Learn the Klallam language
http://www.ling.unt.edu/~montler/Klallam/
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Elwha Klallam Home Page
The song that you are hearing, is the welcome
song of the Klallam Tribe which says.. "..I'm happy you arrived.."
http://elwha.org/
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| Klamath |
Klamath Tribes
"The mission of the Klamath Tribes is
to protect, preserve, and enhance the spiritual, cultural, and physical
values and resources of the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin Peoples,
by maintaining the customs and heritage of our ancestors. To establish
a comprehensive unity by fostering the enhancement of spiritual and
cultural values through a government whose function is to protect
the human and cultural resources, treaty rights, and to provide for
the development and delivery of social and economic opportunities
for our People through effective leadership."
http://www.klamathtribes.org/
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| Kootenai |
Kootenai
Tribe
The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho has a very
small land base located approximately three miles west of Bonners Ferry,
Idaho. The Kootenai Indians in Boundary County spoke a language very
different from other Tribes. (It had a very musical quality).
http://www.rootsweb.com/~idbounda/kindex.htm
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Kootenai
Tribe of Idaho
The Lower Kootenai Tribe has lived in the
area since prehistoric times, and is one of six bands of the Kootenai
Nation, an area that later was drawn as North Idaho, northwest Montana
and southeastern British Columbia.
http://www.bonnersferrychamber.com/pages/tribe.html
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Ktunaxa
The Indigenous peoples known as the Ktunaxa
Indians and often referred to in history books and on maps as the Kootenay
Indians live in the Columbia Basin.
http://www.ammsa.com/guide/GIC00-Ktunaxa.html
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SEED Ktunaxa
Nations Resources
Selective Ethnobotanical Education Directory
or SEED is a resource that has been compiled by four students from the
Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Nation located in southeastern British Columbia and
northern Montana and Idaho.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/ktunaxa/
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| Kumeyaay |
Campo-Kumeyaay
The Campo Band of Kumeyaay Indians is located
in southeastern San Diego County, California. The Band is also known
as Mission or Diegueno Indians.
http://www.campo-kumeyaay.org/
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Kumeyaay Nation
This Web site is dedicated to the promotion
and preservation of the Kumeyaay culture. Kumeyaay.com tells the story
from the Kumeyaay perspective, and is the premiere source for Kumeyaay
Indian information.
http://www.kumeyaay.com
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The
Kumeyaay (Digueño) Indians of San Diego County & Baja - DesertUSA
When Father Junipero Serra entered the San Diego area in 1769 to build
the first California mission, he encountered a thriving population of
peaceful and hospitable Native Americans living in the area.
http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/july/papr/kumeyaay.html
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San
Diego Kumeyaay
This website tells the story of the San
Diego Kumeyaay (koo'-me-eye), a people who once roamed as far west as
the Pacific Ocean, as far east as Palm Springs, approximately fifty
miles south into Mexico, and as far north as Escondido.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/kumeyaay/
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| Lakota |
see
Dakota - Nakota - Lakota
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| Lemhi |
see
Shoshone-Bannock
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| Louisiana
Tribes |
Louisiana
American Indian Lesson Plan
Louisiana has the third largest American
Indian population in the eastern United States.
http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/education/lesson1.htm
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| Luiseno-Juaneno |
LaJolla Band
of Luiseno Indians
Traditionally the Luiseno-Juaneno people
occupied approximately 50 miles of the southern California coastline,
north of present-day San Diego and south of Los angeles, north of the
lands of the Kumeyaay, extending inland for about 30 miles.
http://www.lajollaindians.com/
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| Lumbee |
Lumbee
Tribe - Official Site
The 40,000+ members of the Lumbee Tribe is the
largest tribe in North Carolina, the largest tribe east of the Mississippi
River and the ninth largest in the nation. The Lumbee take their name
from the Lumbee River which winds its way through Robeson County. Pembroke,
North Carolina is the economic, cultural and political center of the
tribe.
http://www.lumbeetribe.com/
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| Lushootseed |
Lushootseed
Digital Archives
The Lushootseed Archive Project ws formally
begun at the Center for Advanced Research Technology in the Arts and
Humanity in June 1996.
http://www.washington.edu/cartah/projects/areas/native_american/lushootseed/index.htm
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| Lummi |
Lummi Lessons
http://cali.arizona.edu/maxnet/lum/
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Lummi Nation
"Related by Family, Culture and History"
http://www.lummi-nsn.org/
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The
Governor's Office of Indian Affairs - Lummi Nation
http://www.goia.wa.gov/tribalinfo/lummi.html
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