History
The American Indian Horse
( – promoted by navajo) While the popular image of Plains Indians is that of the horse-mounted warrior and buffalo hunter, the horse as we […]
History
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 […]
Indian Resistence to the California Missions
( – promoted by oke) While it is not uncommon for some textbooks to give the impression that the California Native Americans passively accepted the […]
An American Indian Teaches the Japanese
In 1853 Commodore Matthew C. Perry brought the American Navy to Japan and forced Japan to end its policy of isolation from the rest of […]
Christian Doctrine and Dehumanization
( – promoted by navajo) The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has released a report which looks at the roots of the Christian […]
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 […]
The Removal of the Chickasaw Indians
President Andrew Jackson informed a delegation of Chickasaw in 1830 that they had only two choices: either move west or submit to the laws of […]
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 […]
The Navajo Long Walk
At the time of creation the Diné (often called Navajo) were instructed by the Creator that they must live within the boundaries of four sacred […]
“..blood of Mexicans is primarily American Indian.”
As a previous editor of the Classic Progressive Historians, I was trying to get a historian I had met on line to post there. He […]