American Indians
California’s War On Indians, 1850 to 1851
In 1850 California was admitted to the United States as its 31st state. As with some other states, Native Americans were not seen as desirable […]
American Indians
Greed and the Administration of Indian Reservations in the 19th Century
With the formation of the United States in the late eighteenth century, policies toward American Indians generally followed the British colonial model in which Indians, […]
Ancient America: The Columbia Plateau, 2000 BCE to 500 BCE
The area between the Cascade Mountains and the Rocky Mountains in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia, and Western Montana is known as the Plateau Culture […]
Pontiac’s War
In 1763, the Ottawa leader Pontiac led an alliance of Indian nations in the Ohio Valley in a war of resistance against the British. In […]
The Horse and the Plateau Indians
The stereotype of the American Indian adopted by the entertainment industry and by some educational textbooks is based on the horse-mounted, buffalo hunting Plains Indians […]
Early Oregon Sites
The earliest period of human occupation in the Northern Great Basin region of Oregon is called the Paisley Period by archaeologists. The period, which is […]
The Lake Mohonk Conference
Wealthy people often feel that they know what is best for poor people. From 1883 through 1916, a small group of wealthy philanthropists, who referred […]
Newfoundland Natives and Early European Invaders
Newfoundland is the world’s sixteenth-largest island and Canada’s fourth-largest. During the more than six centuries of European exploration prior to the establishment of the English […]
American Indians in 1915
One hundred years ago, in 1915, most Indians were not citizens even though U.S. policies called for the full assimilation of Indians and the total […]
Occupation of Paisley Caves in Oregon
The earliest period of human occupation in what is now Oregon is called the Paisley Period by archaeologists. The period, which is tentatively dated from […]