Native Peoples in North America 1492-1900

The Eskaleut, Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages are a language                 native to the northern portions of the North Amer...

A-wun-ne-wa-be, Bird of Thunder 1845.  George Catlin (American, 1796-1872)     Bird of Thunder was a member of the Ojibwe (Chippewa) tribe. ...

Detail The Common Council of Georgia Receiving the Indian Chiefs by Willem Verelst c. 1734 - 1735 (DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum -...

16C depiction of Christopher Columbus landing in America. Theodore de Bry, Reisen in Occidentalischen Indien (Frankfurt, ca. 1590-1630)....

Chief Nutimus Netawatwees (born 1650) Native Americans and American History  by Francis Flavin - US National Park Service Natives...

George Caleb Bingham (American genre painter, 1811-1879) Om-pah-tón-ga, Big Elk, a Famous Warrior 1832 Native Americans and American H...

George Caleb Bingham (American genre painter, 1811-1879) Eh-toh'k-pah-she-pée-shah, Black Moccasin, aged Chief 1832 Native America...

C hoctaw Natives ready for Lacross by George Catlin Native Americans and American History  by Francis Flavin US National Park Servi...

George Caleb Bingham (American genre painter, 1811- 1879) Captured by Indians Native Americans and American History  by Francis Flav...

 1934 The Indian Reorganization Act Attempts to Restore  Tribal Sovereignty and Lands The Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934, also know...

The 1st Europeans believed to have arrived in North America were Vikings around about 1000CE.  Leif Eriksson, a Viking explorer, led a party...

Great Mortality Among the Wampanoags due to Smallpox, Colonial Massachusetts. 1600s After Columbus’s landfall in 1492, the Native Americ...