Notes From The Frontier

Elizabeth Custer said of the great Hunkpapa Chief: "I never in my life dreamed there could be...so fine a specimen of warrior as Gall."

The name is legion. One of America’s greatest generals was named after him. An early American folk hero and two U.S. Presidents admired him.

Nature spoke constantly to Native Americans and they lived by its pulse and power, its cadence and dominion.

Sacagawea is one of the most famous figures in American history. Nearly all American school children and adults recognize her name.

We all know the immortal names of Pocahontas and Sacagawea, native women who played important roles in the formation of our early nation.

One Native man reached the very highest echelons of white power and, in 1865, penned the final surrender terms of the Civil War.

Few legends in American history embody the power and poignancy that Pocahontas does.

JAMESTOWN is a PBS series now in it third year on public television.

As I dug further, I found that the TWELVE oldest cities in what is now the United States were Native American and Spanish.

It turns out that Angela Swedberg is one of the leading Tribally Certified Indian Artisans in the country.

Hundreds of riders on spotted Appaloosa horses, are saddling up to retrace the steps that Chief Joseph and his Nez Perce tribe took.

Chief Joseph’s saga is an “unparalleled story in the annals of the Indian's resistance to the greed of the whites.

In Native American cultures, paint was power—spiritual power, physical power.

Edward Curtis was a famous American photographer and ethnologist who focused his work on the tribes of the American frontier.

Native American contributions to the U.S military have long been heralded.

Before whites came to North America and native tribes integrated horses into their culture, dogs were common across the entire continent.

According to military statistics, Native Americans have served in the military more per capita than any other ethnic group.

On this day 142 years ago, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe faced the end of his tribe's civilization as a free people.