biography
Chief Sealth (Seattle), Suquamish/Duwamish Leader
Sealth was born about 1786. His father, Schweabe, was Suquamish and his mother, Scholitza, was Duwamish. As a young boy in 1792, he witnessed the […]
biography
Roman Nose, Cheyenne Warrior
While the Algonquian-speaking Cheyenne are generally considered a Plains Indian tribe, they actually moved onto the Plains from what is now Minnesota. As a result […]
Chief Sealth (Seattle)
Sealth was born about 1786. His father, Schweabe, was Suquamish and his mother, Scholitza, was Duwamish. As a young boy in 1792, he witnessed the […]
Kennekuk, Kickapoo Leader and Prophet
When a society is undergoing rapid change—economic and technological change, religious change, language change, social change—and particularly when that change is being imposed on them […]
Skolaskin, A Sanpoil Prophet
The Columbia Plateau refers to the area between the Cascade Mountains and the Rocky Mountains in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia, and Western Montana. The […]
Ilchee, A Powerful Chinook Woman
The river known to the Chinook Indians as Hyas Cooley Chuck collides with the Pacific Ocean to create the worst wave conditions on the planet. […]
Francis La Flesche, Omaha Ethnographer
By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, most American Indian cultures had dramatically changed, and many Indian tribes ceased to exist. Many Americans, particularly […]
D’Arcy McNickle, Novelist, Bureaucrat, Activist
For many people in the academic world, one of the major foundations of Native American literature was laid with the publication of The Surrounded in […]
Looking Glass, Nez Perce Chief
In 1877 the United States army under the leadership of America’s Christian general, O.O. Howard, went to war against the Nez Perce. The five autonomous […]
James Welch, Novelist
In 1966, Richard Hugo was teaching a poetry class at the University of Montana. One of his students was James Welch who had been born […]