President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced tens of thousands of Indigenous Peoples, including the Cherokee, from ancestral lands east of the Mississippi. The forced removal, often ...

As white explorers and settlers entered Western territory, they disrupted a centuries-old culture — that of the Plains Indians.

People began settling in the Northeast region of North America thousands of years ago, after their ancestors traveled east from Alaska, around the Great Lakes, and eventually ended up along the ...

White settlers in the United States in the early nineteenth century coveted the land held by Native Americans. The U.S. government initially sought to limit the resulting conflict by treating Native ...

The relationship between Native Americans and colonists is often seen as a clash of civilizations during and after the Revolution. But the story is more ...

Native American Day is now a paid holiday for California state workers. “California designated the fourth Friday of September ...