Navajo
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 […]
Navajo
Boulder Dam and the Navajo Reservation
In general the history of hydroelectric dams in the United States has involved the transfer of wealth from the nation’s poorest people, American Indians, to […]
Death in Pueblo and Athabascan Cultures
Funerary practices and beliefs about death are more about the living than the dead. They provide some insights into the cultures of the people. The […]
Help school in Indian Country
Help a school in Indian Country get a badly needed makeover. Help our kids go to school in a nice environment! Go to www.glidden.com and […]
The Navajo and Oil in the 1920s
Traditionally the United States has assumed that any mineral and energy resources found on Indian reservations should be developed by non-Indian private enterprise and that […]
The Navajo and Mexico
In 1821 Mexico obtained independence from Spain. In the Plan of Iguala, Mexico did away with all legal distinctions regarding Indians and reaffirmed that Indians […]
The War on Poverty
In 1964, with one out of every five Americans living in poverty, President Lyndon Johnson addressed Congress in his State of the Union message and […]
The Athabascan-Speaking Groups in the Southwest
Sometime in the late 1300’s and early 1400’s groups of hunting and gathering Athabascan-speaking peoples began arriving in the Southwest from the far north in […]
The First U.S. Treaties with the Navajo
In 1846, the United States took control of New Mexico and Arizona. The United States Army under the leadership of General Stephen Watts Kearny occupied […]
Utah’s Black Hawk War
( – promoted by navajo) During 1865 to 1867, American and Mormon settlers in Utah were engaged in a war with a small group of […]