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)
An article about the American victory over the British during the Battle of the Thames on 5 Oct. 1813, in which Shawnee Chief Tecumseh was killed... (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)
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