North America, from west to east coast, was mostly owned and settled by Native Americans in 1775. Native Americans were the first settlers on North America, but slowly, when the Americans no longer needed Native Americans help, they viewed them as savages and outsiders. So the Americans and the mai...

The Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Nation is also known as the Great Sioux Nation. The word Sioux was adopted by the United States government from the term (Nadowesioux), which comes from a Chippewa (Ojibwa) word which means little threatened snake or enemy. This was because the Ojibwa or Chippewa learned t...

Published in 1932, the novel Black Elk Speaks is the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux, as told through John Neihardt. In a long series of discussions between the two men, Black Elk imparted his own story and the story of the Oglala Sioux during the tragic decades of the Custer battle, th...

The late 1800's were a time of critical change for both white settlers and Native Americans. By the mid 1800's, the United States government was starting to put in place a series of treaties to try and keep the whites and Native Americans in separate territories. These treaties served to...