Native American History

The buffalo was an essential part of Native American life, used in everything from religious rituals to teepee construction.

Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse face George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at Little Bighorn.

After Japan invaded the Aleutians, 6,300 Alaska Natives formed the Alaska Territorial Guard to defend against further invasion.

Resistant to government regulated reservations, the Sioux retreated into the Black Hills until a final massacre at Wounded Knee.

The French and Indian War saw two European imperialists go head-to-head over territory and marked the debut of the soldier who would become America's first president.

Maria Tallchief, a trailblazing Native American, became a famed prima ballerina and the Nutcracker’s iconic Sugar Plum Fairy.

Omar explores the intense endurance and strength training of Apache warriors, skilled in combat and endurance.

Settlers seize Great Plains land as Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse lead Lakota resistance against the encroaching U.S. Army.

From Chunkey in 600 CE to NASCAR today, America’s been racing wheels for centuries—it all started with the Cahokia people.

Mary Ross, one of the first Native American women engineers, helped shape top-secret Cold War projects that changed history.

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.

Alcatraz, known to most as a famous prison, became an important mark in salvation for Native American history.

In 1876, General Custer and members of several Plains Indian tribes, including Crazy Horse and Chief Gall, battled in eastern Montana in what would become known as Custer's Last Stand.

Find out how Andrew Jackson's controversial Indian Removal Act paved the way for The Trail of Tears.

In WWII, Native American Code Talkers created an unbreakable code for Allied transmissions, but the strategy began in WWI amid persecution at home.

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.

An unlikely bond between the Native Americans and the Irish shows the best of humanity in the darkest times.

From goggles to kayaks and more, discover eight incredible inventions by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Explore 5 facts about the Proclamation of 1763, a decree originally enacted to calm the tension between Native Americans and colonials, but became one of the earliest causes of the American Revolution.

Before it was a toy, the Hula Hoop was used in Native dances to mimic nature and symbolize the circle of life and cyclical balance.

Piestewa kept true to her roots and made the ultimate sacrifice for her comrades in battle.