History
Big Mountain Navajo Elders Have Sheep Impounded Even Though Peabody Coal Mine Closed
What might be “the largest forced removal of rural Americans since that of Japanese Americans during the Second World War?” It never is a good […]
History
Suppressing Peyote in 1918
During the first part of the twentieth century, one of the primary concerns of the United States government, as well as state and local governments, […]
The Siletz Reservation, 1900-1925
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the policies of the federal government regarding American Indians were based on the philosophy that Indians, like other […]
Ktunaxa Beadwork (Photo Diary)
The traditional territories of the Ktunaxa people—also known as the Kootenai—was in the Rocky Mountains of Montana and British Columbia. Their hunting and gathering economy […]
Reservations and Tribes a Century Ago, 1919
Indians, according to the non-Indian social philosophers, bureaucrats, and politicians of the nineteenth century, were going to simply disappear by the end of the century […]
American Indians and the Spanish in 1568
From the Native American perspective, the sixteenth-century marked the beginning of the European invasion. The first Europeans to contact the Native nations were explorers, adventurers, […]
Plateau Indian Reservation Life (Photo Diary)
The Plateau Culture Area is the area between the Cascade Mountains and the Rocky Mountains in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia, and Western Montana. From […]
Archaeology: The Spring Rancheria
A literate society does not record a complete history of all of the people in the society. History is often recorded by ruling elites to […]
WOW2: Trailblazing Women – Special Edition for National Native American Heritage Month – 2018
Pow Wow women – from eastcountymagazine.org Welcome to WOW2 — Special Edition!! WOW2 is a twice-monthly sister blog to This Week in the War on […]
Fishing on the Columbia River (Old Photos)
The Fort Dalles Museum in the Dalles, Oregon, has a number of old photographs documenting Indian fishing on the Columbia River prior to the completion […]