Oklahoma
The Cherokee After Removal
By the beginning of the nineteenth century, many prominent and influential Americans, particularly those from the southern states, had decided that the United States should […]
Oklahoma
Ancient America: Oklahoma
What is now the state of Oklahoma became the new home to many Indian nations during the nineteenth century when the American government forcibly removed […]
Lost Identity
I was born in Hampton, Virginia. I lived in Newport News, Virginia until the age of seven. My story starts as a young child with […]
Ancient America: The Southern Plains Villagers
Southern Plains Villagers is a culture that occupied the Southern Plains from 800 CE to 1500 CE. These Indian people had agricultural economy which they […]
The Indian Journal
The media has never been fair and balanced when it comes to serving Indian people and reporting on events which impact Indian lives. Many Indian […]
Centuries of Genocide: Modoc Indians, Part IV
In case you missed anything… Part I describes the first generation of Modoc people to contact European-Americans, and the slow war in the Klamath Basin […]
Centuries of Genocide: Modoc Indians, Part III
( – promoted by navajo) photo credit: Aaron Huey The Battle of Lost River In Part II, I had concluded with the Third Generation’s great […]
“It’s still legal in Oklahoma to kill an Indian”
Foster Child’s Autopsy Results Released(You Tube) Naomi Whitecrow, a 2-year-old member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes “died of blunt-force injury to the head, abdomen […]
Choctaw Education After Removal
By 1840, some 40,000 Indians from the Five Civilized Tribes-Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole-had been resettled in what is now Oklahoma as a part […]
The Katy and the Indians in the 19th Century
Following the Civil War, the Indian nations located in Indian Territory (an area which would later become the state of Oklahoma) faced two massive forces. […]