Indigenous Life in America
The experience and impact of Indigenous Americans as recorded by the news media, 1690 to today.
Indigenous Americans have shaped the geography, arts, culture, and civil discourse of their homes from prior to the arrival of Europeans through modern times.
This primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of Indigenous history, daily life, traumas, and triumph.
The content in this database is sourced from more than 17,500 American and global news sources.
What is in this resource?
- Louisiana Purchase
- The French and Indian War
- War of 1812
- Indian Civilization Act
- Fletcher v. Peck
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Song of Hiawatha”
- California Gold Rush
- Indian Removal Act
- Carlisle Indian Industrial School
- Medicine Lodge Treaty
- Hawaiian Kingdom leprosy outbreak
- Wounded Knee Massacre
- Annexation of Hawaii
- Native American Church established in 1918
- American Indian Sign Language
- Indian New Deal
- Trail of Broken Treaties nonviolent protest caravan
- Miss Indian America competition begins in 1954
- Navajo Community College, first tribal college
- Hawaiian-language immersion schools
- Blackfire, Indigenous American punk band
- Tributes to and memories of Indigenous American military veterans
- Obama designates Bears Ears as a national monument
- “Killers of the Flower Moon” film released in 2023
- Graduation rates for Indigenous Americans on the rise
- Indigenous Peoples’ Day
- And MORE!
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