History
History
The Bozeman Trail
In 1851, the United States called a treaty council at Fort Laramie, Wyoming which was attended by 8,000 – 12,000 Indians from the Cheyenne, Arapaho, […]
The Northeastern Late Woodland Period
The time period from about 400 CE to 900 CE in northeastern North America is called the Late Woodland period by archaeologists. This was a […]
The Naming of America
America was named on April 25, 1507 after the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci. The process of naming the continent (initially what is now South America) […]
The Klamath River Salmon War
Traditionally fish were an important food resource to most of the northern California tribes. Indian nations such as the Hupa, Karuk, Achomawi, and Yurok relied […]
Apache Oil in the 1970s
The reservation for the Jicarilla Apache Tribe was established in New Mexico by Executive Order of President Grover Cleveland in 1887. Following the 1934 Indian […]
Ancient America: The Birth and Death of a Pueblo
In 1245 CE, the Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan) began construction on the Sand Canyon Pueblo in Colorado. The pueblo is located at the head of a […]
The Flathead and Lewis and Clark
Long before Europeans had even dreamt about the possibility of the Americas, the Bitterroot Salish, also known as the Flathead, were living in the Bitterroot […]
The American Indian Religious Freedom Act
Any careful examination of the religious freedom of American Indians, especially as it pertains to aboriginal religious practices, since the foundation of the United States […]