The Life of Angus Chavers, a Confederate POW

Dr. Dean Chavers
March 12, 2013
Most of the Lumbees who fought in the Civil War were in the Confederate Army...

Interior, NPS Establish 13 New National Historic Landmarks, Including Significant American Indian Sites

ICTMN Staff
March 11, 2013
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Director of the National Park Service (NPS) Jonathan B...

Taĥċa Wakutėpi: Where They Killed Deer

Dakotah
January 19, 2013
I put this together to raise some awareness about the Killdeer Mountain site...
Simon Moya-Smith

Don't Be Fooled: No One Is 'Threatening' Thanksgiving

It was 6:15 p.m. on a Wednesday when I attempted to break into St. Paul’s Chapel on the Columbia University campus in New York City. There was a lecture scheduled for 6 p.m....

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November 24, 2012

What Really Happened at the First Thanksgiving? The Wampanoag Side of the Tale and What’s Done Today

Gale Courey Toensing
November 23, 2012
When you hear about the Pilgrims and “the Indians” harmoniously sharing the “first Thanksgiving” meal in 1621, the Indians referred to so generically are the ancestors of the conte...
Julianne Jennings

The History of 'Ten Little Indians'

Many of us remember learning and singing the bubbly little pre-school nursery rhyme "Ten Little Indians" as we sat in a circle with our legs crossed, Indian style....

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October 11, 2012

Will Rogers Started Poor, Died Rich, and Left Behind a Lot of Laughter

Steve Russell
September 18, 2012
Will Rogers was born to Cherokee parents in 1879 in Indian Territory, a rural backwater where Indian tribes had been sent to die, yet this Paint Clan Cherokee became internationall...

Ku Klux Klan Founder Could Be Getting Expanded Monument in Selma, Alabama

ICTMN Staff
September 12, 2012
Plans for an expanded monument to honor Confederate Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest in Selma, Alabama have raised controversy...

Missing Voices: Native Perspective Lacking in Civil War Accounts

Patti Jo King
August 26, 2012
An account of Indians in the U.S. Civil War has been issued in paperback—and with it comes a now-familiar sense of letdown...

A Brief History of American Indian Military Service

Konnie LeMay
May 28, 2012
Ask about Americans Indians serving in the U.S. military service and World War II generally comes to mind with the Navajo code talkers or perhaps Marine Cpl...

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