Indians 101 is a series exploring American Indian histories, cultures, and current concerns
When the Europeans began their invasion of the Americas, the Cherokees were an agricultural people whose villages could be found throughout the American Southeast. Cherokee […]
Anthropologists have long used the Omaha as the classic example of a family structure which is centered around a patrilineal clan. The Omaha clan is […]
One of the differences between Native Americans and the Europeans who invaded this continent is the view of land ownership. Europeans viewed land as something […]
Susette (Yosette) La Flesche was born on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska in 1854. She was the eldest daughter of Joseph La Flesche and Mary […]
For most people today, personal names consist of two basic parts: (1) a surname or last name which is the same as the father’s surname […]
During the first part of the seventeenth century, the Wampanoag Confederacy controlled a large portion of what is now New England. Wampanoag territory ranged from Narragansett […]
We don’t really know how many Native American languages were spoken in what is the United States and Canada when the Europeans began their invasion. […]
The state of Kansas and the Kansas River are named for the Kansa or Kaw Indians whose aboriginal territories once included the state and spread […]
In has been well documented that American Indians, particularly those living on reservations, have the lowest levels of education in the country. On Indian reservations, […]
The Ute Indians were traditionally mountain-dwelling bands whose traditional territory extended from the southern Rocky Mountains in present-day Colorado, west to the Sevier River in […]