Native American Heritage

Hundreds of thousands of Native Americans occupied the North American continent when Columbus claimed this "new" land for his queen. The aborigines welcomed the newcomers at first, but as their lifestyles were inexorably changed and their very lives threatened by new diseases for which they had no resistance, they grew to regard the interlopers for what they really were.

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• Dakota Conflict •
• Nez Perce •
• Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill •
• Treaty of Fort Laramie •
• Tragedy at Wounded Knee •