Fourth in a series on the Texas Triangles. The Texas Panhandle is rich and complex, shaped by Native American cultures, ...

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 ...

As white explorers and settlers entered Western territory, they disrupted a centuries-old culture — that of the Plains Indians. The arrival of the railroad and, with it, more permanent and ...

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There was only one direction to expand – over the mountains to the west into the Indian homelands and the land claimed by the French as Canada. Thousands of settlers from the American colonies ...

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 ...

Think of Native Americans, and there's a good chance you'll think of Thanksgiving. The tale of how European settlers and Native Americans peacefully sat down to share a feast is a compelling one ...