Indians 101 is a series exploring American Indian histories, cultures, and current concerns
In 1825, Governor George Simpson of the Hudson’s Bay Company conceived the idea of selecting some Indian boys from the Columbia River tribes in present-day […]
In 1821 Mexico obtained independence from Spain. In the Plan of Iguala, Mexico did away with all legal distinctions regarding Indians and reaffirmed that Indians […]
With the passage of the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) in 1934, the United States government sought to bring economic development to Indian reservations by making […]
( – promoted by navajo) photo credit: Aaron Huey Prior to contact, the Modoc people inhabited an area approximately 5,000 square miles in southern Oregon […]
The Navajo Community College was established in Tsaile, Arizona in 1969. This college was an outgrowth of the idea of self-determination in which the tribes […]
During the 1930s, the conservation policies of the federal government collided with Navajo culture. What the Navajo perceived as the callous disregard of the government […]
By 1840, some 40,000 Indians from the Five Civilized Tribes-Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole-had been resettled in what is now Oklahoma as a part […]
The United States came into existence in its current governmental form with the adoption of the Constitution in 1787. Under the Constitution, the federal government, […]
European nations assumed that they had a right to govern the Indian nations they encountered. This right stemmed from the legal and religious Doctrine of […]
During the nineteenth century non-Indian scholars, intellectuals, government officials, and others were convinced that American Indians were a dying race and that by the twentieth […]