The award, one of the most prestigious among scholars of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and ...

In the 19th century, over 250,000 Native Americans lived in the Great Plains -- between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. After the Civil War, however, the U.S. government began to increasingly ...

As an American or someone who thinks that they understand American history, we tend to think in terms of what happened with Native Americans, that that the genocide didn’t really get going until like ...

These events fit the pattern of the late 19th century, a time of nearly constant ... when he said he favored a humane course to bring Native Americans "under the benign influences of education ...

This caused conflict throughout the 19th century, but the Native Americans were no match for the United States government and its armies. After 1851, all Native Americans had to live on ...

At the end of the 19th century, the government repeatedly and ... An Indian state would perhaps offer greater autonomy for Native Americans than the current reservation system.

In the Trump administration’s arguments defending his order to suspend birthright citizenship, the Justice Department called into question the citizenship of Native Americans born in the United States ...

A century after Native Americans were granted the right to vote, they have become increasingly recognized as a crucial voting demographic. The president is expected to formally apologize to Native ...

The VFW traces its roots to the late 19th century and efforts to secure ... Here, the museum looks at the mission and vision of the VFW and Native Americans’ extraordinary record of service ...

By the time sailing ship Capt. Robert Gray named and claimed the Columbia River for the United States in 1792, European diseases already had decimated the Pacific Northwest Native American population.