Dissolving Cherokee Government
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, that great American visionary Thomas Jefferson proposed that Indian nations be moved to territories west of the Mississippi […]
Month: November 2015
The Pawnee Morning Star Ceremony
Human sacrifice is generally defined as the ritual killing of a human being as a part of a religious ritual. While human sacrifice was an […]
Ancient America: Wyoming Before 6000 BCE
Although the region of North America known today as Wyoming first entered into the written Euro-American histories in the early nineteenth century with the exploits […]
California Indians Lose Their Home
The United States acquired what would become the state of California under the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which ended the war with Mexico. In […]