Northern Nevada lithium mine draws Native resistance
Backers of a planned lithium mine at Thacker Pass say it would provide materials for electric vehicles, but a coalition of Native American tribes is fighting against it.
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Backers of a planned lithium mine at Thacker Pass say it would provide materials for electric vehicles, but a coalition of Native American tribes is fighting against it.
A unique method with charcoal that creates a textured surface is the result of an upcoming public art show that will feature Kurt Holdorf's work of twelve South Dakota Native Americans.
A unique method with charcoal that creates a textured surface is the result of an upcoming public art show that will feature Kurt Holdorf's work of twelve South Dakota Native Americans.
In the 1890s, Native Americans, driven to desperation by starvation, poverty, and the loss of their homelands, created a new religion involving a "Ghost Dance"
Context For much of the United States’ period of westward expansion, white settlers’ attempts to claim plots of land were met with fierce and sometimes violent resistance from indigenous peoples. This resistance intensified in the latter half of the 19th century as the U.S. federal government repeatedly signed and violated treaties with various Plains tribal leaders. Most prominent among these were the Sioux Indians, of which the Lakota are a subgroup. The Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868 established the 60-million-acre Great Sioux Reservation and created agencies to represent the federal g...