Wisconsin’s Indigenous roots: effigy mounds, Old Copper Complex tools, Ojibwe treaty rights, and Ho-Chunk and Menominee history before and after 1848 statehood.
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Why are Indiana residents called “Hoosiers”?
Why are Indiana residents called Hoosiers? The documented record, the leading theories, and the Native homelands beneath the nickname.
5 Would-Be U.S. States
How five would-be U.S. states — Franklin, Deseret, Sequoyah, Absaroka, and Jefferson — collided with Native sovereignty, treaty law, and Indigenous homelands.
Missouri
How the Missouri Nation gave a state its name: Osage treaties, Mississippian mound cities, and the Native history behind the Show Me State’s 1821 statehood.
Florida – Seminole Wars, Immigration & Disney World
Explore Florida’s Native history: the Calusa and Timucua nations, Seminole origins, three Seminole Wars, Removal Act resistance, and today’s federally recognized tribes.
South Dakota – Mount Rushmore, Gold Rush & Wounded Knee Massacre
Explore South Dakota’s Native history: the Oceti Sakowin, Black Hills gold seizure, 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, Wounded Knee Massacre, and Crazy Horse Memorial.
Washington, D.C.
Before the U.S. capital, Washington, D.C. was Nacotchtank and Piscataway homeland. Explore Potomac Indigenous history, treaty diplomacy, and the NMAI.
Tennessee – State, Population & Capital
Explore Tennessee’s Native American history: Cherokee & Chickasaw homelands, the Trail of Tears, Tanasi origins, statehood in 1796, and cultural legacy.
Deconstructing History: Empire State Building
The Empire State Building stands on Lenape homeland. Explore Mannahatta’s Indigenous past, the contested 1626 ‘sale,’ wampum diplomacy, and the tower’s 1931 rise.
Arkansas – Hot Springs, Little Rock & State
Explore Arkansas Native history: Paleo-Indians, the Quapaw, Osage and Caddo, European contact, forced removal and the Trail of Tears.
South Carolina – Colonel History, Civil War & Myrtle Beach
Explore South Carolina Native American history: Cherokee, Catawba, Yamasee War, colonial treaties, and the tribes’ enduring legacy in the Palmetto State.
9 Things You May Not Know About California
Nine California facts reframed through Indigenous history: unratified 1851 treaties, Ohlone homelands, the bear flag, Ishi, Alcatraz and repatriation.