The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

(Screengrab via YouTube) Wheeling native Amanda McGovern won the American ... Amanda McGovern, a 2021 Wheeling Park graduate and senior at West Virginia University, was named champion of the American ...

It wasn’t just Indians whom settlers ... of the pacification of the West. Sherman gave a wide berth for policymakers to try to enact treaties with Native Americans, but when the treaties failed ...

In one of his first secretarial orders, Doug Burgum ordered staff to review public lands with an eye toward opening them to ...

In one of his first secretarial orders, Doug Burgum ordered staff to review public lands with an eye toward opening them to mining or drilling.

With the arrival of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into the Great Basin in 1847, Brigham Young sought to extend a church-state empire throughout the intermountain West.

“It should not be that way for a country as rich as the U.S.” Since 2000, the average life expectancy of many American Indians ... than others. Native Americans in the West — defined in ...

As more settlers and prospectors headed west following the American Civil ... Any person, government agency, Native American tribe or organization can submit a proposal to the board, as long ...

With less than two weeks left in his presidency, President Joe Biden designated two new national monuments in the West ... A number of Native American tribes sought the monument creation to ...

The premiere episode’s depiction of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, in which church members wearing sack-cloth face coverings along with a group of Southern Paiute Native American ...

The story is set in the Utah Territory, where horrible conflict is simmering between Zion-seeking Mormons, Manifest Destiny-driven pioneers, Native American tribes ... of Ye Olde West and reach ...