Two native descendants of these tribes, April Moore and Professor Frank LaPena, and historian James Rawls tell us about what happened to Native Americans in the period of the Gold Rush.

where Native Americans from 12 tribes were designated to live on several million acres of land. Twenty years later, the reservation was reduced to 1.4 million acres. In 1940, seven years into the ...

Due to a lack of Native presence at the time of West Virginia’s settlement, the state has no federally recognized American Indian tribes or tribal lands. In fact, most Indians in West Virginia ...

The alliance is aimed at leveraging the Catawba's resources to promote self-governance, land control, taxation and funding for S.C.'s state-recognized tribes.