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Wild West June 2006 Robert W. Larson |
Sioux Chief Gall: In the Shadow of Sitting Bull Soldiers gave the Hunkpapa leader his nickname because he was a dashing warrior who effectively teamed up with Sitting Bull in the 1870s. But after his surrender in 1881, Gall stood up for cooperation and peace at Standing Rock. |
Wild West February 2006 John D. McDermott |
Brule Sioux Chief Spotted Tail Spotted Tail, chief of the Brules, showed much martial prowess in his younger days, only to became a highly respected peace chief. But he was not destined to die peacefully. |
Wild West February 2006 John D. McDermott |
Brule Sioux Spotted Tail's Pledge of Peace War and a terrible winter were fresh memories when the tearful Spotted Tail was allowed to bury his daughter at Fort Laramie. This helped convince the Brule Sioux leader to bury the hatchet forever. |
Wild West L. Robert Pyle |
Cheyenne Chief Tall Bull Tall Bull led the Dog Soldiers in battle, but his death at Summit Springs ended Southern Cheyenne power. |
Wild West McCune & Hart |
The Fatal Fetterman Fight Called a massacre at the time, the December 1866 clash near Fort Phil Kearny was, in fact, a military triumph by the Plains Indians and the Army's greatest blunder in the West until the Battle of the Little Bighorn 10 years later. |
American History December 2005 Charles Phillips |
Wounded Knee Massacre The intermittent war between the United States and the Plains Indians that stretched across some three decades after the Civil War came to an end on December 29, 1890, at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. |
Wild West July 3, 2004 Sierra Adare |
Fort Laramie: Gateway to the Far West The fort, which became a military post 150 years ago, protected and supplied emigrants headed to the West Coast and was the site of several historic peace conferences between the northern tribes and the U.S. government. |
Wild West December 2005 Gregory Michno |
Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle is usually portrayed as a man of peace, a visionary and more, but is that the stuff of legend and myth? |
Wild West J. Jay Myers |
The Notorious Fight At Sand Creek More often called a massacre than a battle, the attack by Colonel John M. Chivington's Colorado volunteers on Chief Black Kettle's village will forever be controversial. |
Wild West August 2005 Robert Nightengale |
Custer's Last Stand Still Stands Up Although George Custer may have made some mistakes at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, he had a solid plan that summer day in 1876 and might have defeated Sitting Bull and allies had two subordinate officers obeyed his orders. |
Wild West Robert Benjamin Smith |
Buffalo Bill's Skirmish At Warbonnet Creek Three weeks after the disaster at the Little Bighorn, Buffalo Bill claimed he had taken 'the first scalp for Custer!' And soon the famous scout was doing it all over again on the stage. |
Wild West July 3, 2004 Jeff Broome |
Death at Summit Springs: Susanna Alderdice and the Cheyennes In May 1869, Tall Bull's Cheyenne Dog Soldiers carried out a series of brutal raids in north-central Kansas, and though the white soldiers later caught up with them, vengeance could not make everything right. |
Wild West July 3, 2004 Nancy M. Peterson |
Interpreter Philip Wells: Wounded at Wounded Knee The son of a white father and a half-blood mother, Wells nearly lost his nose in the tragic 1890 affair but still managed to be merciful. |
American History April 2004 Glenn W. LaFantasie |
King Philip's War: Indian Chieftain's War Against the New England Colonies More than 330 years ago, a great Indian chieftain known as King Philip led a strong native American confederation in a bloody war to obliterate the New England colonies, nearly succeeding in dramatically altering the course of American history. |
Wild West Robert Foster |
Buffalo Soldiers in Utah Territory At Fort Duchesne, black 9th Cavalry troops served alongside white infantrymen while dealing with the sometimes restless Ute Indians and the wild and woolly Duchesne Strip. |
Wild West July 3, 2004 G. Sam Carr |
Sioux Chief's Ghost Dance Revival Two years after Wounded Knee, Chief Two Sticks was Ghost Dancing and more. |
Wild West John F. Murphy, Jr. |
Long March of Lewis and Clark For 28 arduous and danger-filled months, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the longest armed reconnaissance in military history. |
Civil War Times June 2007 Gordon Berg |
American Indian Sharpshooters at the Battle of the Crater In 1864, American Indian sharpshooters fought gallantly beside their black and white comrades in blue in the chaos of the Crater. |
Wild West December 2006 |
Letters from Readers Plenty of Gall... & Some Little Crow... Untimely Mistake... |
Smithsonian May 2006 Owen Edwards |
War and Remembrance An Indian artist's traditional tribute honors Native American soldiers who served in Vietnam. |
Outside October 2002 Bill Vaughn |
The Snow on the Sweetgrass For newcomers -- meaning most of us -- they are merely picturesque. But for Native Americans, the sacred places of the Great Plains and Northern Rockies are alive with centuries of memory and meaning -- and something much, much bigger. |
Smithsonian March 2007 Joshua Hammer |
Rain Forest Rebel In the Amazon, researchers document the way the native people have joined forces with an embattled chief to stop illegal loggers and developers from destroying the earth's most precious wilderness |
Smithsonian May 2005 Landon Y. Jones |
Tribal Fever Twenty-five years ago this month, smallpox was officially eradicated. For the Indians of the high plains, it came a century and a half too late. |
American History June 10, 2004 David E. Johnson |
1840 Presidential Campaign: A Ceaseless Torrent of Music Modern presidential campaigns are routinely criticized for presenting more style than substance. It's nothing new. Take, for example, the 1840 campaign, which pitted Old Tip against Sweet Sandy Whiskers and was often waged with song. |
CIO October 1, 2001 Tom Field |
Outsourced in America American Indian tribes are breaking into the IT outsourcing business, offering offshore values at onshore sites. See how entrepreneurial American Indian tribes are offering onshore some of the same low-cost, high-quality IT services available offshore... |
Salon.com March 8, 2001 King Kaufman |
Puck politics A Hitler-celebrating alum's cash convinces a North Dakota university to keep its degrading Indian mascot... |
CFO December 1, 2006 John Goff |
The 5 Cent Empire Native American tribes parlayed legalized gambling into a $22 billion lifeline. Now states want a piece of the action. |
AskMen.com September 30, 2014 Migizi Pensoneau |
Think Washington Shouldn't Have To Change Their Name? This Might Change Your Perspective The NFL has so many controversies going on right now, it's hard to know where to start. But the league still has some issues in the mix when it comes to race and culture. |