New Mexico
Invading Mexico in the 1880s
In the 1880s, the American wars against the Apache Indians ignored the border between the United States and Mexico, and the American military often ignored […]
New Mexico
Apache Oil in the 1970s
The reservation for the Jicarilla Apache Tribe was established in New Mexico by Executive Order of President Grover Cleveland in 1887. Following the 1934 Indian […]
Ancient America: The Birth and Death of a Pueblo
In 1245 CE, the Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan) began construction on the Sand Canyon Pueblo in Colorado. The pueblo is located at the head of a […]
President James Polk and the Indians
James K. Polk was the dark horse who became President of the United States in 1845. Polk set four goals for his administration and two […]
Pueblo Weaving
For more than a thousand years, American Indian agriculturalists have been living in villages in what is now Arizona and New Mexico. When the Spanish […]
Chaco Culture National Historic Park
More than a thousand years ago, the Ancestral Puebloans constructed a number of larges pueblos in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. The ruins of these ancient […]
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 […]
Mount Taylor and the Pueblos
The Pueblo Indians, who have lived in the American Southwest for thousands of years, do not draw a distinction between the secular and the sacred: […]
The United States and the Pueblos
When the United States acquired what is now New Mexico and Arizona in 1846, a number of Pueblos were brought under American rule according to […]
The Pueblos
When the United States acquired what is now New Mexico and Arizona in 1846, a number of Pueblos were brought under American rule according to […]