Other displays in this center focus on settlers moving west as part of their “Manifest Destiny.” This 19th century belief stated that American settlers were destined by God to claim lands across North America. Itspurposewas “to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the...
Understand more about Native American removal from their ancestral lands, how the Cherokee Nation resisted removal and the story of the Muscogee Nation's experience before, during, and after removal See for yourself If you travel to North America, you can experience Native American culture in the...
seizure of Native American lands. Treaty of Fort Wayne - 1809 Interim Archives/Getty Images A map of Native American cessions in the Northwest from 1789 to 1816. Territories include lands ceded under the Fort Wayne Treaty (labeled C and K on the map), as well as Clark's Grant, ...
Across the continent, Indigenous peoples are methodically reasserting control over their land, laws, and how they live.
Studies have indicated that a population found in central Asia contributed strongly to both the Native American population and the European population by moving from central Asia into both Europe and Siberia, but that does not equate to Europeans being ancestral to Native Americans. Instead, a commo...
just for pots and treasure, but knowledge and understanding of the past. In 1912, he excavated a Mayan site in Guatemala, and in 1917, at age 28, he began the excavation and restoration of Aztec Ruins, an Ancestral Puebloan site in New Mexico, for the American Museum of Natural Hist...
Breaking New Ground: A Story of Native American Archaeologists Working in Their Ancestral LandsNelson, Peter A.Journal of California & Great Basin Anthropology
Her castaway tale captured 19th-century imaginations and inspired the novel 'Island of the Blue Dolphins.' Scholars today are diving deeper into her people's history in California's colonial past.
American Indian Reservation Summary BIA Criteria for Acknowledgement as an Indian Tribe Indian Identity: Who Is Drawing the Boundaries? Indian Nations: The United States and Citizenship 1983 Map of Native American Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stocks Smithsonian Institution Native American ...
in the American Southwest All the "recognized" early cultures of the Southwest: the Mogollon, Hohokam and Ancestral Puebloans made pottery. There were even potters among the Yuman peoples who populated the desert areas west of the Colorado River, but their work was more crude and primarily revol...