
Some Words
From a traditional American Indian perspective, words are living things which live on long after their sounds are spoken. In traditional ceremonial songs, words are […]
From a traditional American Indian perspective, words are living things which live on long after their sounds are spoken. In traditional ceremonial songs, words are […]
One of the central themes of United States policies with regard to American Indians is the need to convert them to Christianity and to repress […]
During the nineteenth century, the United States aggressively pursued a policy of Manifest Destiny to spread out between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. In […]
When the Europeans began their invasion of the Americas, they found that the Native Americans, like people throughout the world, had domesticated dogs. At the […]
About 8,000 years ago (6000 BCE), the American Indian cultures of the Northern Plains began undergoing a series of major changes. There was a decrease […]
During the 1830s, a major stir occurred among the missionary groups in North America when there were reports of the “savage” tribes from the interior […]
While Grizzly bears were once found throughout much of the American West, today there are two primary locations where Grizzly bears are abundant: Glacier National […]
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, that great American visionary Thomas Jefferson proposed that Indian nations be moved to territories west of the Mississippi […]
Human sacrifice is generally defined as the ritual killing of a human being as a part of a religious ritual. While human sacrifice was an […]
Although the region of North America known today as Wyoming first entered into the written Euro-American histories in the early nineteenth century with the exploits […]