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 ...

And the fighting continued. Soon after constructing the fort at Jamestown, two hundred Powhatan Indians unexpectedly attacked the new settlers, who had not yet unpacked their guns. By 1609 ...

Real estate records indicate that a small community of Indians remained on the island as late as 1788, two centuries after the Roanoke settlers arrived, but there is no sign of Indian traditions ...

All the while, white settlers kept coming. The state governments did little to discourage them, ignoring federal treaties and even abetting the taking of Indian land through bribery, fraud and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Seeing what was happening, he shot the Indian, killing him and scaring off the rest of the band that had set upon Wimmer. In turn, the settlers dragged Wimmer and the dead Cherokee into the ...

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 ...