
Removed from their land
This register recorded census-like data on Cherokee Indian family groups. More than 70,000 members of the Cherokee, Seminole, Creek, Chickasaw, and Choctaw tribes...

Report of the Doolittle Commission
The Joint Special Committee issued this report on January 26, 1867. It found that the Indian population was rapidly decreasing because of White aggression,...

Running Antelope-Tan-To-Ha-Eah-Ka
Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner photographed Sioux Indian Running Antelope-Tan-To-Ha-Eah-Ka in 1872. It is believed that Running Antelope-Tan-To-Ha-Eah-Ka...

School photos
These Chiracahua Apache students were photographed at the Carlisle Indian School, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania four months after their arrival. At Carlisle and other...

School photos…before
Upon arrival in 1886, these Chiracahua Apache students were photographed at the Carlisle Indian School, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. At Carlisle and other schools,...

Scout Tsoe
Tsoe, also known as “Peaches,” was a White Mountain Apache who enlisted into the U.S. Army and served as a scout under General George Crook, commander of the...

Senate Joint Resolution 89
Wisconsin Senator James Doolittle authored Senate Joint Resolution 89 creating the Doolittle Commission to analyze the "Indian problem" and investigate corruption...