For more than three hundred years, white men battled Native Americans for control of the North American continent. Beginning shortly after European settlers landed on the shores of the present-day United States in the early seventeenth century and...

At the turn of the eighteenth century the territory east of the Mississippi River seemed like enough land for the growing U.S. population for generations to come. Early explorers had indicated that much of the land west of the Mississippi was either...

For wars involving India, see Military history of India. For wars not involving the United States of America, see Wars of the indigenous peoples of North America. Indian Wars is the name generally used in the United States to describe a series of...

It changed the future of North America In 1607, the first English settlers founded Jamestown, Virginia. A year later, the French arrived in Canada. For the next 150 years, Britain and France struggled for control of land in North America. The...

Today's California Indians procured power the old-fashioned way: They bought the best government that money could buy. In just a few years, revenues from their newly built casinos soared to $5 billion per year (2002), pushing them close to Las Vegas ($7.7 billion)...

The British and Cherokee nations, each finding the other strange and curious, sought peace when they sent delegates to each other in 1762. A new exhibit details both sides, through the eyes of the other."Emissaries of Peace: The 1762 Cherokee and British Delegations," opened Wednesday...

About two weeks ago, archaeologist Tom Kutys thought he'd found a stone wall when he came across mortared capstones in a trench at the state park that once was the site of French and British forts. Instead, archaeologists at Point State Park believe they very...