Buffalo Hunting Among Northern Plains Indians Prior to the Horse
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, […]
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A Brief Overview of the Illinois Indians
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 […]
Women Warriors Among Northern Plains Indians
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, […]
A Brief Overview of the Assiniboine Indians
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 […]
A Brief Overview of the Creek Indians
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 […]
Maine Indians and Early European Explorers and Fishermen
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 […]
Southeastern Indian Hunting
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 […]
Colonists and Missionaries in Maine
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 […]
Huron History, 1535 to 1648
The Huron, an Iroquoian-speaking people whose traditional homeland was north of the Great Lakes, were a confederacy of four major tribes: Bear, Rock, Barking Dogs, and […]
Indian Affairs in 1966
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 […]