Author Michael Blake is best known for his fictional accounts of the often-violent cultural misunderstandings between Euro-Americans and Native Americans; his novel Dances with Wolves was made into a ...

The film explores the French and Indian War, a pivotal conflict between France and England in the mid-18th century that determined control over North America. It discusses the initial military ...

A Denver guest's archive includes chapters from H.S. Kilbourne's memoir of experiences in the Indian territory; his pencil sketches of life on the Plains; and many evocative photographs by W.S. Soule.

The year 1540 was a crucial turning point in American history. The Great Indian Wars were incited by Francisco Vazquez de Coronado when his expedition to the Great Plains launched the inevitable ...

Monday, October 13 is Indigenous People’s Day. Between 1776 and 1887, the U.S. seized more than 1.5 billion acres from Native Americans by treaty and executive order. According to the National Park ...

NMAI copy Purchased from the NMAI Library Endowment. As he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum, ...