National Adoption Month
American Indian Heritage Month
Here are a Few Fun Facts... Did you know?
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As of 2022, 2.09% of the U.S. population identified as American Indian or Alaska Native, which is around 6.79 million Americans.
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There are about 574 federally recognized Native American tribes in the U.S.
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More than 27,000 people who identify as American Indian currently live in Pennsylvania.
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The two largest Native American tribes are Cherokee Nation and Navajo Nation. Learn more
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Native Americans are considered to be the first group to have created anesthetics and analgesics. Often deriving from natural products and ointments, such as plants and flowers, they established a revolutionary form of medicinal healing, long before European doctors had knowledge of such possibilities.
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More than half of the states in the U.S. have names that come from Native languages, one of the most familiar groups being the Algonquian languages. Three examples of this are Oklahoma, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.