Native American History
Native American history spans an array of diverse groups and leaders, including Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Tecumseh, and events like the Trail of Tears, the Battle of Little Bighorn and the occupation of Alcatraz.
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They've had to fight continually to maintain their way of life.
The treaty that made the first Thanksgiving possible has a dark backstory.
Chief John Ross devoted much of his life to fighting against the forced removal of his people from their ancestral lands.
There are more than nine million Native Americans living in the United States, representing hundreds of tribal nations with diverse languages, cultures and traditions.
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Wounded Knee in South Dakota was the site of an 1890 Indian massacre by U.S. Army troops, and a deadly 1973 occupation by Native American activists.
In 1763, at the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation, mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands.
The American Indian Movement (AIM) is a grassroots movement for Indigenous rights, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The group has organized many high-profile protests and occupations, and was a driving force behind the Native American civil rights movement of the 1970s.
Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief who organized a Native American confederacy to create a free Indian state and stop white settlement in the Great Lakes region.
As explorers sought to colonize their land, Native Americans responded in various stages, from cooperation to indignation to revolt.
Native Americans, also known as American Indians and Indigenous Americans, are the indigenous peoples of the United States. By the time European adventurers arrived in the 15th century A.D., scholars estimate that more than 50 million Native Americans were already living in the Americas — 10 million in the area that would become the United States.
The Trail of Tears was the deadly journey Native Americans were forced to undergo after being removed from their ancestral lands.
Apache chief Cochise (?-1874) was a prominent leader of the Chiricahua Indians, feared for his settlement raids during the 1800s
Indian reservations were created by the 1851 Indian Appropriations Act as a means for minimizing conflict and encouraging cultural change among Native tribes.
The history of the bison is intertwined with Native Americans, for whom the animals were spiritual equals—and a vital resource.
An overheard conversation between three Choctaw Indian soldiers serving in World War I led to a code strategy that confounded enemy forces.
The constitutional framers may have viewed Indigenous people of the Iroquois Confederacy as inferior, but that didn't stop them from admiring their federalist principles.
The traditional full moon names were inspired by Native American and European customs.
Navajo Code Talker Samuel Sandoval and the Unbreakable Code
Samuel Sandoval, one of the last original Navajo Code Talkers, recalls enlisting in the Marines at 18 to help create an unbreakable code. Using their sacred, unwritten language, he and his brothers-in-arms forged a secret weapon that never fell to the enemy.
Navajo Code Talkers Legacy with Zonnie Gorman
Historian Zonnie Gorman shares the legacy of the Navajo Code Talkers, including her father, Carl. These heroes used their native language to help secure every major Pacific battle. As Major Connor noted, without them, Iwo Jima would never have been taken.
