To celebrate the last day of Native American Heritage Month, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about the Navajo Code Talkers and their key role in WWII... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about an important newspaper in Native American – and U.S. – history: the “Cherokee Advocate.”.. (Read More)
An article about the Int. Olympic Committee returning Jim Thorpe’s 1912 Olympic gold medals to his family 70 years after unjustly taking them from him... (Read More)
An article about the Wounded Knee Massacre in S.D. on 29 December 1890 when Spotted Elk and his band of Miniconjou and Hunkpapa Lakota were slaughtered... (Read More)
The last Confederate army to surrender in the Civil War was not one of Southern whites: it was the Cherokee army of Brigadier General/Chief Stand Watie... (Read More)
In this article for National Native American Heritage Month, Gena Philibert-Ortega explains how to use the Dawes Rolls for Native American genealogy... (Read More)
An article about the Medicine Lodge treaty, signed on 21 October 1867, that forced the Southern Plains Indians onto small reservations in Oklahoma... (Read More)
An article about the Battle of the Rosebud, where a large force of Arapaho, Cheyenne and Lakota Indians stopped Gen. Crook in Montana on 17 June 1876... (Read More)
An article about the Battle of the Washita on 27 November 1868, when George Custer destroyed Black Kettle’s peaceful Cheyenne camp... (Read More)
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