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)
An article about the 8 May 1973 ending of the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, by protesters led by the American Indian Movement... (Read More)
An article about Jim Thorpe, an athletically-gifted Native American who was perhaps the greatest athlete in American history... (Read More)
An article about Lakota Chief Sitting Bull’s visit to St. Paul, Minnesota, on 14 March 1884, to see white civilization for himself... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega gives tips for Native American family history research, and provides links to many helpful sites... (Read More)
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak writes about the “Cherokee Phoenix” – the first Native American newspaper published in the U.S. .. (Read More)
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