Indians 101 is a series exploring American Indian histories, cultures, and current concerns
The Great Basin Culture Area includes the high desert regions between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains. It is bounded on the north by […]
For thousands of years, the Indian nations of the Northern Plains relied upon the buffalo—technically bison, but commonly called buffalo—for food, for clothing, for shelter, […]
Today, the Illinois Indians are known primarily as the Indian nation whose name is used for both a state and a river. Their aboriginal territory […]
The popular media and sometimes history book view of the Northern Plains Indians of the nineteenth century envisions a male warrior, mounted on a horse, […]
Like most of the Indian nations that are currently associated with the Northern Great Plains, the Assiniboine migrated out on the Plains after the European […]
The designation “Creek” is a European concept which emerged during the eighteenth century to designate the Indian people who were living along the creeks and […]
While the Indian nations in what is now Maine may have had some limited contact with Europeans as early as 1480, regular contact began in […]
While the Indian nations of the American Southeast were an agricultural people, they used hunting to supplement their diet. Just as these nations held their […]
By the beginning of the seventeenth century, the French and English were turning from the exploration of what is now Maine to establishing colonies and […]
Just fifty years ago—1966—American Indian affairs in the United States was still being guided in part by a philosophy of termination: that is, dissolving American […]