Native Americans

Picture Cave in Warren County, Missouri is a two-cave system that contains over 290 prehistoric polychrome paintings. Scholars believe the...

Crazy Horse's battles against the United States government on Native American lands cemented his place in American history. The enigmatic...

In the 1780s, relations between Native Americans and encroaching pioneers in the Ohio Valley were tense. In 1786, a Native...

In 1881, a college professor near Lindsborg, Kansas, discovered a Spanish Coin. Later, pieces of chain mail, used for soldiers...

Near the Mississippi River, mounds built by the Mississippian people, tower over the floodplains. The mounds are the remnants of...

The Lewis and Clark expedition, a fabled story, stuck in the minds of Americans, is a staple of elementary school...

The Piasa Bird was a mythological bird-like creature that preyed along the Mississippi River. According to legend, it could latch...

The Mississippian culture, one of the most fascinating cultures in world history, built earth mounds from Minnesota down to the...