Indians 101
Indian Removal 200 Years Ago (1818)
During the first part of the nineteenth century, the American government policy was to remove Indians from east of the Mississippi River and to “give” […]
Indians 101
The Eastern Woodlands Culture Area
In providing a broad overview of the hundreds of distinct American Indian cultures found in North America, it is common for museums, historians, archaeologists, and […]
The Salish Language Family
The Salish language family is found on the Northwest Coast and in the Columbia Plateau. Salish is generally felt to have great antiquity in the […]
Tribes and Reservations in 1917
During the nineteenth century, the United States had attempted to settle all Indians on well-defined reservations on lands deemed unsuitable for non-Indian development. Here Indians […]
The French and the Indians 300 Years Ago, 1719
In 1719, the French were continuing their exploration of North America. Historian William Eccles, in his chapter in North American Exploration. Volume 2: A Continent […]
Reforming Indian Policies 150 Years Ago, 1869
When Ulysses S. Grant became President of the United States in 1869, the Indian Office (also known as the Indian Service, and the Indian Bureau) […]
Tribes and Reservations a Century Ago (1918)
Indians, according to the non-Indian social philosophers, bureaucrats, and politicians of the nineteenth century, were going to simply disappear by the end of the century […]
Christian Missions in 1817
The early nineteenth century was a period in which American Indians came into contact with non-Indian explorers and missionaries. Unlike the early explorers who simply […]
The Sioux in Canada
Following the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn in which the American 7th Cavalry under the command of Lt. Col. George Custer attacked a peaceful […]
D’Arcy McNickle, Novelist, Bureaucrat, Activist
For many people in the academic world, one of the major foundations of Native American literature was laid with the publication of The Surrounded in […]