American Indians
Ziebach County, South Dakota: America’s Poorest County
NOMAAN MERCHANT 02/13/11 03:48 PM ZIEBACH COUNTY, S.D. – In the barren grasslands of Ziebach County, there’s almost nothing harder to find in winter than […]
American Indians
More Photos from Rosebud Rez + Propane Drive Update
Cross-posted at Daily Kos Sherry Cornelius of St. Francis Energy has sent us more photos of our Rosebud rezidents saying *THANK YOU* to you all […]
Bad News for Indian Country: INDN’s List Closes
How does the American Indian improve his life today? If he’s not completely strapped down by the terrible conditions of most of our reservations he […]
American Indians and Tobacco
( – promoted by navajo) One of the common sayings in Indian country is that when our ancestors first gave tobacco to the European invaders, […]
16th Century Spanish Religious Views of American Indians
( – promoted by navajo) The major European powers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries took very different approaches to American Indians. For the French, […]
The 14th Amendment and American Indians
( – promoted by navajo) There has been a lot of talk recently by politicians, reporters, pundits, legal scholars, and others about the Fourteenth Amendment […]
The First Seminole Indian War
( – promoted by navajo) During the nineteenth century the United States engaged in three wars with the Seminole Indians in Florida: 1816 to about […]
20th Century Indian Wars
( – promoted by navajo) By the end of the nineteenth century, it was commonly believed by scholars, politicians, and the general public that Indians […]
American Indians and the Civil War
One of the major American events during the nineteenth century was the Civil War. This war, which lasted from 1861 to 1865 and caused 620,000 […]
Genocide in Northern California
During the last part of the nineteenth century some of the American settlers in the west, and particularly in California, began hunting and killing Indians […]