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Fort Independence Indian Community Of Paiute Indians
The Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians of the Fort Independence Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Mono and Timbisha in the Owens Valley, in Inyo County, eastern California. As of the 2010 Census the population was 93. Government The Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians is headquartered in the town of Independence. The tribe is governed by a democratically elected tribal council. The current tribal administration is as follows. * Chairman: Carl Dahlberg * Vice Chairman: Alisa Lee * Secretary Treasurer: Jack Bracken * Gaming Commission: Wendy Stine, Chair, Daniel Miller, Vice & Carl Dahlberg, Compliance Officer. * Tribal Administrator: Carl Dahlberg * Assistant Tribal Administrator: Cheyenne Stone * Fiscal Manager: Anissa Eaton * Fiscal Assistant: Brianne Bent * Office Assistant: Jesseca Tsosie Enrollment into the tribe is based on the original allottees at the time, 1999, when the tribe's Article of Association where adopted a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
