Indians 101 is a series exploring American Indian histories, cultures, and current concerns
The western portion of the Northeastern Woodlands of the U.S., an area designated as the Great Lakes-Riverine area by some anthropologists, was inhabited by Algonquian-speaking […]
In 1851, the United States government met in treaty council with 8,000 to 12,000 Indians from several Plains tribes at Fort Laramie in present-day Wyoming. […]
While the movies and popular books (including some textbooks) speak of the Apaches as if they were a single American Indian nation, there are many […]
The Choctaw, at the time of European contact, were a loosely organized confederacy composed of three distinctly different divisions: Okla Falaya (Long People), Okla Tannap […]
Around the year 1451 five Iroquois nations—the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk—met to form the confederacy envisioned by the Huron prophet Deganawida. The five […]
Many religious traditions, but not all, put forth an explanation about what happens after death. There are many religious traditions which claim there is an […]
The Great Plains is the huge area in the central portion of the North American continent which stretches from the Canadian provinces in the north, […]
