Tom Jeffords leans on the bar of a saloon in Mesilla, New Mexico Territory, whiskey in one hand and a woman on the other…
Tag: Native Americans
The Wretched Newspaper War A shocking sale of photographs illustrates how the press fueled a notorious Indian massacre.
A profit-making enterprise that ended up documenting history may make one’s stomach queasy—especially when a complete pi…
Crazy Horse Never Died A symbol of Indian resistance may be gone, but his legacy provides a pride that goes beyond the Sioux.
The legend, the myth, the legacy of Crazy Horse didn’t end with his death. American Indians of several tribes—including …
Buffalo Bill & His “Blood-Thirsty” Indians The hardest-fighting tribe of the American West devoured European audiences alive...with eloquence and wit!
“Heap-big Injun likum Paris?” asked The New York Times reporter. Chief Daniel Black Horn replied, “I think it migh…
She’s So Money Sacagawea and her sculptor on coin bring riches to the auction block.
Sacagawea played a major role in the success of the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United…
Guns, Indians and the West The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $29.95
In his scholarly study, Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America (The Belknap Press of H…
Now, That’s Tasty!
“Arizona’s pioneer cookery is the aroma of salt pork and beans simmering over a prospector’s open fire, the …
Tecumseh and The Battle of Tippecanoe
If Tecumseh had his way, American expansion would have ended at the Ohio River. The Shawnee leader believed that the lan…
Their Name Lives On
It started with one Pima basket, bought in the late 1890s somewhere around Phoenix, Arizona. Newcomers to the Southwest—…