Hansi Lo Wang
Over the next few decades Indigenous communities worked to gain control over the education of their children. Their efforts helped bring about the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, which the U.S. Congress passed in 1975. The law gavetribescontrol over their own affairs, inclu...
In the mid-1700s, European settlers began to arrive, leading to conflicts over land and resources. This culminated in the Northwest Indian War (1785–1795), where a confederation of Native American tribes, led by the ShawneeChief Tecumseh, resisted U.S. expansion. The war ended with theTreat...
while Caribbean cultural patterns penetrated the coastal plain from Panama to Honduras. Fugitives from the Europeanconquistadoresin the Caribbean increased this influence considerably at the close of the 15th century. TheMiskito,Sumo,Rama, and other tribes on the Nicaraguan and Honduran Caribbean shores...
and pastoralism and in the petroleum,mining, fishery, and tourism industries. The nomadicBedouintribes migrate in search of water and pasturage but are increasingly attracted to industry and agriculture. In the mountainous south, acommunityofEastern Orthodox Christianmonks lives inSt. Catherine’s Monast...
Uteand SouthernPaiuteIndiantribes, now living in reduced numbers on reservations, hunted and gathered in the plateaus and canyonlands of the upper Colorado basin for centuries. In the lower basin, the largest prehistoric canal irrigation system in the American West was built by theHohokamIndians on...
The word Oklahoma is derived from twoChoctawwords:okla, “people,” andhumma, “red.” During the 19th century the future state was a symbol of one of the least glorious chapters in American history, becoming known asIndian Territory, the dumping ground for easternNative Americantribes displaced...
the state does have a number of colleges and institutes ofhigher education, including North-Eastern Hill University at Shillong. The 1947 partition of the subcontinent disrupted the tribal populations; some tribes found themselves divided by the new international frontier, and this resulted in tribal...
Lewis and Clark Expedition, U.S. military expedition (1804–06), led by Capt. Meriwether Lewis and Lieut. William Clark, to explore the Louisiana Purchase and the Pacific Northwest. The expedition was a major chapter in the history of American exploratio
U.S. Senators: Mitt Romney (Republican) Mike Lee (Republican) Show More Before the arrival of the first Mormon pioneers, Utah was inhabited by several Native American tribes, including the Ute, for whom the state is named. From the beginning of Mormon settlement in 1847, the pioneers set...