These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers and many other white Americans, were standing in the way of progress. Eager for land to raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal ...

called the Wampanoag's welcoming of the English settlers "perhaps our biggest mistake," The Washington Post reported. On the National Day of Mourning, Native Americans gather in Plymouth ...

And the fighting continued. Soon after constructing the fort at Jamestown, two hundred Powhatan Indians unexpectedly attacked the new settlers, who had not yet unpacked their guns. By 1609 ...

Real estate records indicate that a small community of Indians remained on the island as late as 1788, two centuries after the Roanoke settlers arrived, but there is no sign of Indian traditions ...

Chipeta, also known as White Singing Bird, was a fascinating female Native American leader and advocate who dedicated her adult life to meditating between white settlers and Native Americans.

early settlers in Mississippi and Louisiana had the ability to vaccinate themselves and the enslaved against smallpox, but it appears that they did not share their vaccines with Native Americans ...

Seeing what was happening, he shot the Indian, killing him and scaring off the rest of the band that had set upon Wimmer. In turn, the settlers dragged Wimmer and the dead Cherokee into the ...

By the early 1880s, prairie residents including white settlers, Métis, and Plains Indians were convinced of the neglect of a distant and imperial Ottawa. The Métis (mixed blood offspring of fur ...

The Canadian government had watched the carnage unfold in the American West, when settlers brazenly flocked into the untamed land, provoking bloody and expensive Indian wars. In 1876 alone ...