North America Native Americans
Edward Curtis: The North American Indian
Migrations
Beringia
Prehistoric Beringia
Glacial Maximum
Cahokia, IL
Poverty Point, LA on the Ouchita River, a tributary of the Mississippi
The Cherokee, 1700s Sequoyah, 1828
1900s
Cherokee fought for the Confederacy!
Cherokee Nation, then and now.
Trail of Tears: Web of Tears
Fairmont, NC
Sand Creek Massacre, 1874 an unprovoked attack on the Cheyenne & Arapaho
Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation, SD, 1890 Miniconjou Lakota Chief, Spotted Elk
Indian Massacres
Custer’s Last Stand, 1876 “You go down there…”“You go down there…” Little Big Man, 1970
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1868
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Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief Empire of the Summer Moon, Jeff Gwynne
Harper’s Magazine, 1867
Bison skulls to be ground for fertilizer, mid-1870s, Kansas
Bison skull wall, Saskatoon, 1890
Standoff at Wounded Knee
Sasheen Little Feather refuses Brando’s Oscar for the Godfather.
Pine Ridge Reservation, Slots
American Indian, Fritz Sholder, 1970
Teddy Draper, Navajo Code Talker
Sampson Co., NC 421