A 2011 monograph published by the US Army War College reflects on the similarities between the Indian Wars and the Global War on Terror: “It’s not a stretch when looking at an early photo of military ...

A park ranger, two Civil War re-enactors – complete with knapsacks and a muzzleloader – and a college professor carrying a large map stood poised at Steptoe Battlefield State Park earlier this month ...

Different cultures with different visions: Cultural differences lead to misconceptions and conflict / Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. -- Why White Americans had difficulty understanding Indian religion / George ...

Author Michael Blake is best known for his fictional accounts of the often-violent cultural misunderstandings between Euro-Americans and Native Americans; his novel Dances with Wolves was made into a ...

Wayne Carlson made his 14th Brush Sack Lunch Program presentation at the Brush History Museum on Friday afternoon. The retired Brush Middle School social studies teacher presented “Chaos Along the ...

A Denver guest's archive includes chapters from H.S. Kilbourne's memoir of experiences in the Indian territory; his pencil sketches of life on the Plains; and many evocative photographs by W.S. Soule.

In Pre-Columbian America, millions of Native Americans were spread across the continents, made up of a large number of unique civilizations and tribes. As the Spanish began exploring what they called ...

NMAI copy Purchased from the NMAI Library Endowment. As he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum, ...

Monday, October 14, is Columbus Day and Indigenous People’s Day. There are around 326 tribal land areas in the U.S., compared with 574 federally recognized tribes. Of the federally recognized tribes, ...

This photo of Edward R.S. Canby was taken in 1873, shortly before he became the only U.S. Army general to be killed in the Indian Wars. Canby is buried in the Crown Hill National Cemetery in ...