First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park (Photo Diary)
For thousands of years the Indian Nations of the Northern Plains have hunted buffalo. In the days before the coming of the horse (about 1730), […]
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Alcatraz Island
The occupation of Alcatraz Island in California by a group of Indians from various nations during the late 1960s and early 1970s became the symbol […]
The French Fur Trade
When the French first entered North America, their primary focus was on gaining wealth through the fur trade. They viewed Indians as trading partners, as […]
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The Choctaw Removal
By 1830, non-Indians in Mississippi, motivated by greed and racism, were strongly advocating the removal of the Choctaw from the state. According to the citizens […]
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Re-Enacting the Fur Trade
As with many other aspects of history, the fur trade in North America has re-enactors who bring this aspect of history alive by acting out […]
The Athabascan-Speaking Groups in the Southwest
Sometime in the late 1300’s and early 1400’s groups of hunting and gathering Athabascan-speaking peoples began arriving in the Southwest from the far north in […]
Glacier National Park: Avalanche Lake (Photo Diary)
For centuries before the creation of the United States and the concept of a National Park Service, Indian people from several very different tribes utilized […]
Heathens on the Nez Perce Reservation
When Ulysses S. Grant assumed the Presidency, he inherited a major problem with regard to the administration of the Indian reservations. The Indian Service was […]