Indians 101 is a series exploring American Indian histories, cultures, and current concerns
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Huron, whose traditional homeland was north of the Great Lakes, were a confederacy of four major tribes: Bear, Rock, Barking Dogs, and White Thorns (also […]
In 1966, the American federal government was beginning to wind down its policies intended to end federal involvement with Indian tribes, due to resistance from […]
The American Indian histories of 1866 carry numerous accounts of wars, battles, massacres, and other conflicts. Some of these are briefly described below. Conflicts with […]
It is not uncommon to encounter the assumption that the history of Massachusetts began with arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620. However, Indians had lived […]
Joseph Medicine Crow, a Crow tribal historian and elder, has crossed over at the age of 102. The Crow, who currently have a small reservation […]
During the nineteenth century, most government officials, missionaries, and social scientists had assumed that American Indians were a vanishing and vanquished people who would be […]