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Born in 1753, Peter Harris was a Catawba Indian who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Raised near present-day Fort Mill...

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Sitting Bull was born in 1831 to a prominent Hunkpapa Lakota family, as both his father and two uncles were chiefs in the tribe. As a child he was...

Crazy Horse was born in 1840 in the Black Hills of South Dakota. As a child, he was named “Curly Hair” due to his light complexion and hair that made...

Born in approximately 1726, Daniel Nimham grew to stand as a protector of his fellow Wappinger — or Stockbridge — Indians in the Hudson River Valley...

Born in approximately 1840 on the upper part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula to Franco-Ottawa merchant-fur trader Henry Graveraet and his Ojibwe wife...

Violence once again shattered the forests west of the Appalachian Mountains in the spring of 1763. The peace brought on by the end of the French and...

Born on the Tonawanda Reservation in western New York in 1828, Hasanoanda was raised in the Seneca traditions but was educated at a Baptist mission...

As Great Britain and the United States spiraled toward war in the summer of 1812, Native tribes in North America found themselves pulled into the...

A year after the first shots were heard at Lexington and Concord, Robert Mursh, also spelled Mush or Marsh, joined the Continental Army in Virginia...