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Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
, and later the Principal Chief of the northern Yamparika or "Root Eater" division of the Numunuu Comanche
Comanche
The Comanche are a Native American ethnic group whose historic range consisted of present-day eastern New Mexico, southern Colorado, northeastern Arizona, southern Kansas, all of Oklahoma, and most of northwest Texas. Historically, the Comanches were hunter-gatherers, with a typical Plains Indian...
, ca. 1850-60. As Comanche personal names are seldom translated into English, he is commonly known as Paruasemena.
Paruasemena was orphaned as a baby when his family group was murdered by Lakotas.
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