Blog About Native Americans

In 1853 Commodore Matthew C. Perry brought the American Navy to Japan and forced Japan to end its policy of isolation from the rest of … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) Mitakuyepi When we talk about healing, as Native people or think about it. It can be over whelming at times. … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) Chief Ron Yonaguska Holloway met with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, James Anaya on April 23, after … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has released a report which looks at the roots of the Christian … Continued

One of the major American events during the nineteenth century was the Civil War. This war, which lasted from 1861 to 1865 and caused 620,000 … Continued

President Andrew Jackson informed a delegation of Chickasaw in 1830 that they had only two choices: either move west or submit to the laws of … Continued

During the last part of the nineteenth century some of the American settlers in the west, and particularly in California, began hunting and killing Indians … Continued

At the time of creation the Diné (often called Navajo) were instructed by the Creator that they must live within the boundaries of four sacred … Continued

As a previous editor of the Classic Progressive Historians, I was trying to get a historian I had met on line to post there. He … Continued

Very soon after the Spanish began their invasion of this continent, both the European courts and clergy declared Indians to be “people” in a biological … Continued