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Eric Schweig, native american actor
Eric Schweig
       
Eric Schweig, native american actor

 

Of Inuit and German descent, Eric Schweig is the star player of the Aboriginal People's Television Network's Gemini award-winning series Blackstone. Schweig plays Andy Fraser, the chief of the fictional Blackstone First Nations tribe.

Since his feature debut in the 1990 drama The Shaman's Source, Schweig has made an impressive mark on the acting world in such productions as Squanto: A Warrior's Tale, The Scarlet Letter, Ron Howard's The Missing, Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story, Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis, Cashing In, Casino Jack, and the Emmy-winning Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
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Third native american tribe to allow same sex marriages

The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians are now the the third Native American tribe to legalize same-sex marriage. Read more: Third Native American tribe OKs same-sex marriage 


Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana

The Blackfeet and Blackfoot tribes are really the same tribes.There are three divisions of the Blackfoot Nation. When the US - Canadian border was drawn, those on the Canadian side of the boundary continued to be called by their traditional branch names. However, those on the US side of the border, which may have belonged to any one of the three original branches, were lumped together as one tribe and renamed the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana. Unfortunately, the US Government mispelled Blackfoot to Blackfeet, which is still a bone of contention for this tribe's members as of today.
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Are any of the natives in Alaska recognized as a sovereign nation? What does sovereignty mean?

Submitted by Stephen L. 

 
ANSWER: Hi Steven,
There are 229 federally recognized indian tribes in Alaska. The Alaskan tribes speak 20 different languages, belong to five geographic areas, are organized under thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations and have eleven different cultures. Alaskan natives make up 20% of the population of the state of Alaska.  

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