The Shasta < > Indians are a native people of northern California and southern

The Snake War (1864–1868) was a war fought by the United States of America against the "Snake Indians", the settlers' term for Northern Paiute, Bannock and Western Shoshone bands who lived along

When news of the Whitman Massacre reached the provisional Oregon Territorial capitol at Oregon City in early December, immediate steps to raise a volunteer regiment began. Organizing a force of about

The land between the Missouri and the Rockies, along the Great Plains and the high foothills, was crossed over and forgotten by the men who were forging on into farther countries in search of lands

Catherine Herrold Troeh (January 5, 1911 – June 28, 2007) was an American historian, artist, activist and advocate for Native American rights and culture, especially in the Pacific

Brutally harsh conduct characterized white-Indian struggles in the Northwest, such as the 1,000-mile saga of the 1877 Nez Percé War and the Modoc

Luana K. Ross is a Native American sociologist of the Flathead Nation. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Montana in

The Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin are the Native American peoples of the Great Basin inhabited a cultural region between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra

Chilocco Indian School was an agricultural school for Native Americans located in north-central Oklahoma from 1884 to

Part beaver, part beaver tale, John C. Jackson has been trying to document the mythic fur trade for over fifty years because the real thing is more compelling than the

Latgawa were a Native American people that lived in the Rogue Valley of interior southwest Oregon. In their own language "Latgawa" means "those living in the

The Klamath Tribes, formerly the Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon, are a federally recognized confederation of three Native American tribes who traditionally inhabited Southern Oregon and Northern

The Umatilla Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in eastern Oregon in the United States, mostly located in Umatilla County, with a very small part extending south into Union