American Indians
American Indians and European Diseases
There were an estimated 18 million Native Americans living north of Mexico at the beginning of the European invasion. Prior to the arrival of the […]
American Indians
Ancient America: Montana 6000 BCE to 3000 BCE
About 8,000 years ago (6,000 BCE), the American Indian cultures of the Northern Plains and the Columbia Plateau began undergoing a series of major changes. […]
The Old Spanish Trail and the Indian Slave Trade
In the late sixteenth century, Spain began its formal colonization of what would become New Mexico. Juan de Oñate led a large colonizing party—129 soldiers […]
Indians, Iwo Jima, and the American Flag
During the World War II, 24,521 American Indians served in the military and received the following awards: Air Medal (71), Silver Star (51), Bronze Star […]
Ancient America: Quarry Sites in Montana
One of the common ways of making stone tools throughout the world is by breaking and flaking: a process commonly called flintknapping. Tools made by […]
Ancient America: Montana Prior to 6000 BCE
While the region of North America known today as Montana entered into written Euro-American histories in the early nineteenth century with the Corps of Discovery […]
Ancient America: The Lower Columbia River Area
In 1805, the American Corps of Discovery under the leadership of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark made its way down the lower Columbia River. This […]
Ancient America: A Plateau Clovis Cache
As the ice age was ending in North America, a new hunting technology arose. This technology, commonly known as Clovis after a find in New […]
Greed, Corruption, and the Foundation for Oklahoma Statehood, 1893 to 1894
Thomas Jefferson was one of the Americans who envisioned removing all Indians from American soil and placing them in a confined territory west of the […]
Some American Indian Beliefs About an Afterlife
When the European invasion of North America began there were more than 600 autonomous Indian nations in the region, each with its own religion. While […]