Native American Relations By the American Revolution (1775–83), population growth in the thirteen original colonies had pushed most Native Americans inland across the Appalachian Mountains. Even there, the Native Americans had begun to see a few...

Native Americans believe that they have been dislocated from their land by invaders—European colonizers—and demand independence for their nations. The U.S. government provides for limited independence within the context of the United...

Starting with the earliest contact between Europeans and American Indians, Europeans viewed native people through cultural blinders that often confused them about the realities of Native American life. Images of other peoples and places can play a...

Native Americans is a term which has several different common meanings and scope, according to regional use and...

The drinks went fast at the American Museum of Natural History after the Wednesday, May 23, New York premiere of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, director Yves Simoneau’s heartbreaking HBO adaptation of the 1971 Dee Brown book about the 19th-century massacres of Native Americans....

Nike on Tuesday unveiled what it said is the first shoe designed specifically for American Indians, an effort aiming at promoting physical fitness in a population with high obesity rates.The Beaverton-based company says the Air Native N7 is designed with a larger fit for the...

Billy Walkabout, a native Cherokee whose actions in Vietnam made him among most decorated soldiers of the war, died March 7, his stepdaughter said Sunday. He was 57.Walkabout received the Distinguished Service Cross, Purple Heart, five Silver Stars and five Bronze Stars. He was believed...

Black leaders in Congress asked the federal government Tuesday to weigh in on the legality of a vote by the Cherokee Nation earlier this month to revoke citizenship from descendants of former tribal slaves.Saying they were "shocked and outraged," more than two dozen members of...

Back in 1830's, the Americans were prejudice of the Native Americans because they wanted all of the Indian lands to themselves. They tried everything they possibly could to get the Indians out of their homelands.