Native American History

Rich, complex societies existed in America long before European settlers arrived. These articles explore the cultures of Native communities, the genocide and oppression they have endured, and their continuing efforts to bring about social and environmental justice.

  • Comanche Indians Chasing Buffalo, Painting by George Catlin, 1845–1846
    Comanche Nation, Lords of the Southern Plains
  • Five Arapaho Indians, standing outside a tipi surrounded by a brush fence, November 18, 1904.
    Arapaho People: Indigenous Americans in Wyoming and Oklahoma
  • Signing The Treaty Of Greene Ville, by Howard Chandler Christy
    Treaty of Greenville: An Uneasy Peace to the Northwest Indian War
  • American Indians in full ceremonial dress performing a traditional dance.
    Indian Reorganization Act: A ‘New Deal’ for American Indians
  • Black and white 1924 photo of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge with four Osage Indians in front of the White House
    Indian Citizenship Act: Granted Citizenship but Not Voting Rights
  • A 1911 ad offering "allotted Indian land" for sale
    Dawes Act of 1887: The Breakup of Indigenous Tribal Lands
  • Chief Joseph portrait
    Chief Joseph: Tagged ‘The Red Napoleon’ by American Press
  • Illustration depicting Native American Indian Squanto (aka Tisquantum) (died 1622), from the Pawtuxet tribe, pointing on a coastal rock while serving as guide an interpreter for pilgrim colonists at Plymouth Colony and Massasoit. He died from contracting smallpox while guiding William Bradford's expedition around Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
    Biography of Squanto, Native Who Guided the Pilgrims
  • Engraving illustration of Massasoit and his warriors with colonists
    Biography of Chief Massasoit, Native American Hero
  • Marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, 1855
    Biography of John Rolfe, British Colonist Who Married Pocahontas
  • Bronze bust of Cochise
    Life of Cochise, Apache Warrior and Chief
  • Two Spirit Pride in San Francisco
    Native American Two-Spirit
  • Black Seminole Reenactors at Dade Battlefield State Historic Park
    How Black Seminoles Found Freedom From Enslavement in Florida
  • Indigenous person ritual with eagle feathers
    Injustices of the Past and Present Against Indigenous Peoples
  • Native American
    Who Are the Native Americans?
  • Men Dance at Rocky Boy Pow Wow, Montana
    Native American Dance Regalia in the Powwow
  • 'American Progress', by John Gast (1872), depicting 'Manifest Destiny'
    American Settler Colonialism 101
  • The Trial of Red Jacket
    Native American Influence on the Founding of the US
  • ''Geronimo House Arrest AZ'
    Geronimo Held Captive at Fort Pickens
  • The Navajo Nation Indian reservation
    4 Facts About Indigenous Peoples Reservations
  • Battle of Carillon
    French and Indian/Seven Years' War Battles
  • Battle of Fort Necessity
    French and Indian War: Causes
  • Sir William Johnson
    The Battle of Fort Niagara in the French and Indian War
  • Map of Fort William Henry
    French and Indian War: Siege of Fort William Henry
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    The French & Indian War/The Seven Years' War: An Overview
  • French forces at the Battle of Carillon
    Battle of Carillon During the French & Indian War
  • Richard Nixon
    Richard Nixon's Influence on Native American Affairs
  • Group of Native Americans on horseback, sepia photograph.
    What Is the Doctrine of Discovery?
  • Fact and Fiction About the Origins of Thanksgiving
  • French & Indian/Seven Years' War: 1760-1763
  • young Marlon Brando
    Brando, Littlefeather, and the Academy Awards
  • Sioux Indians in native dress performing the Ghost Dance, illustrated in the London News
    The Native American Ghost Dance, a Symbol of Defiance
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    French and Indian War: Battle of Quebec (1759)
  • Marquis de Montcalm
    French and Indian/Seven Years' War
  • Sculpture depicting the signing of the Holston Treaty at Knoxville, Tenn.
    Enslavement and Identity Among the Cherokee
  • Battle of Plassey
    Seven Years' War: Battle of Plassey
  • country road leading to hills
    The History Behind the Cobell Case
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    French & Indian/Seven Years' War
  • French & Indian/Seven Years' War
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