But after the Indian Removal Act of 1830, they were almost all sent west to Oklahoma as part of the Trail of Tears. The museum event today told visitors about the heritage those groups left behind.

Oklahoma was home to an estimated 83 Indian boarding schools — the most in the country. These schools were popular in the ...

Sitting at the foot of the Wiechquaekeck Trail, an old Algonquin trade route (aka Broadway), the American Indian Museum’s New York location shares the Washington, D.C., location’s incredible ...

in central Oklahoma, came to the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., to see the Treaty of Fort Pitt placed on exhibit and to honor their forebears, who made their marks to ...

The center is part of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Visitors can sit inside ... and Cherokee Nations of Oklahoma. Smith says visitors can learn about the past, “but ...