Although Georgia is often left out of the Native American narrative, a small but mighty community in the state is keeping a strong grip on its culture and history. This story is part of States of Our ...

Cartersville — Valarie Ikhwan gathered with some colleagues inside the nearly empty museum at the Etowah Indian Mounds earlier this year, inspecting some animal pelts intended for a new hands-on ...

On May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized the deportation of the southeast’s Native Americans to present-day Oklahoma. The brutal process, as University ...

Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly-growing United States expanded into the lower South, white settlers faced what they considered an obstacle. This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, ...

Guest: Claudio Saunt, author of Unworthy Republic:The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. Claudio Saunt is the Richard B. Russell Professor in American History at the ...

October 9 is Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day. Most Native American tribes rejected the idea of removal during the U.S. expansion westward, and they tried every strategy they could to avoid it.

Disc 1. Lecture 1. Native America: A Story of Survival ; Lecture 2. Columbian Exchange : New World for All ; Lecture 3. Native South and Southwest in the 1600s ; Lecture 4. Werowocomoco and Montaup in ...