Indians 101 is a series exploring American Indian histories, cultures, and current concerns
We don’t really know how many Native American languages were spoken in what is the United States and Canada when the Europeans began their invasion. […]
The state of Kansas and the Kansas River are named for the Kansa or Kaw Indians whose aboriginal territories once included the state and spread […]
In has been well documented that American Indians, particularly those living on reservations, have the lowest levels of education in the country. On Indian reservations, […]
The Ute Indians were traditionally mountain-dwelling bands whose traditional territory extended from the southern Rocky Mountains in present-day Colorado, west to the Sevier River in […]
Indian citizenship and participation in American politics involves more than just voting: it also involves having Indians elected to public office. One of the first […]
Long before the European invasion of North America, the Coeur d’Alene, who call themselves Schitsu’umsh, occupied a territory that included parts of eastern Washington, northern […]
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Omaha Indians were living in what is now Nebraska where they were a farming people who engaged in […]
The Northern Plains include what is now North and South Dakota, Eastern Montana, northeastern Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. In general, […]
From the viewpoint of non-Indians, particularly government officials in the nineteenth century, a progressive Indian leader was one who advocated the assimilation of Indians into […]
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 […]