Tony Tekaroniake Evans
Tony Tekaroniake Evans is an award-winning journalist and the author of Teaching Native Pride, the memoir Believing in Indians and other books. He can be found at tonytekaroniakeevans.com.
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Lincoln signed laws that gave away millions of acres of tribal land. And he approved the mass execution of 38 Dakota Sioux warriors.
An economic relief program aimed specifically at helping Native American communities during the Great Depression, the legislation marked a sharp U-turn in federal policy toward Indigenous peoples.
Lozen fought against Mexican and American forces for 30 years, earning the nickname 'Apache Joan of Arc.'
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 drove out the Spanish for 12 years—and saved many Indigenous cultures from being wiped out.
His meditative visions served as divine guidance to warriors.
After the Japanese invaded the Aleutian Islands, Indigenous volunteers helped form the Alaska Territorial Guard.
He helped establish national parks, forests and game preserves. But much of that land had been stewarded by Indigenous people for generations.
Chief John Ross devoted much of his life to fighting against the forced removal of his people from their ancestral lands.
Native American riveting gangs worked on the 'high steel' for iconic structures like the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Plaza and more.
In the story of the Great Law of Peace, Hiawatha and the Peacemaker convince leaders of the Five Nations to literally bury the hatchet.
Motorcycle groups offered brotherhood and adventure for returning GIs, many of whom were still processing the horrors of war.
Without Squanto, a.k.a. Tisquantum, to interpret and guide them to food sources, the Plymouth Colony Pilgrims may have never have survived.
