History
Dam Indians: The Dalles Dam
For thousands of years the 1,242-mile-long Columbia River has been central to the lives of the Indian people of the Columbia Plateau region. The river […]
History
Dam Indians: Yellowtail Dam
In 1967 the Yellowtail Dam on the Bighorn River was completed in the traditional territory of the Crow Indians in Montana. The dam was named […]
The Indians and the English in 1712
Three hundred years ago, in 1712, the European invasion of North America was underway. In the Southeast and the Southwest, the Spanish were establishing land […]
17th Century Books About Indians
During the seventeenth century Europeans wrote a number of books about American Indians which both created and perpetuated many of the common stereotypes and misconceptions […]
Indian Chiefs
At the time of the European invasion, Indian cultures differed greatly from their European counterparts in the ways in which they governed themselves. The governments […]
American Indians and Tobacco
In 2011, the Altria Group, the parent company of the tobacco company Philip Morris, released a white paper urging the state of New York to […]
Native American Marriage
The debate over marriage in American society and the fears expressed by some conservatives that allowing diversity will somehow destroy the institution of marriage has […]
President Hayes and the Indians
The administration of Indian Affairs in the United States has always been political. The person in charge of Indian Affairs is the Secretary of the […]
Invading Mexico in the 1880s
In the 1880s, the American wars against the Apache Indians ignored the border between the United States and Mexico, and the American military often ignored […]
The Red River War
After 1871, the United States’ policies regarding American Indian nations was no longer based on negotiating treaties, but on concentrating Indians onto reservations where they […]