Between 1875 and 1878, seventy-two Plains Indians were imprisoned at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida, for their involvement in the Red River Wars in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Their ...

It’s known as ledger art: the beautiful drawings made by American Plains Indians on notebooks brought westward by white settlers and the military. Today, they are unsettling and controversial ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opens the new exhibition “Keeping History: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings” in its Albert H. Small Documents Gallery Nov. 13. The exhibition focuses ...

A design drawing shows the standing metal ring of the National Native American Veterans Memorial as it will be seen from the southeast corner of the National Mall, between the Capitol Building and ...