Native American

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The land wasn’t empty, and Native American tribes fought fiercely to defend it in alliance with the British, leading Washington to dispatch multiple punitive expeditions to subdue them and exert American control.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

At least six of the Native American leaders who accepted Jefferson’s invitation to visit Washington, D.C., between 1804 and 1809 died of illness before they could return to their families.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

A group of Native American activists occupied the land during a period between 1969 and 1971, and in 1972, Alcatraz became a national recreation area under National Park Service management.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

In all of the tension around the founding and the founding documents, there lurks this question of Native American belonging and exclusion and citizenship.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026

At the time of his arrival, much of the original Native American population of hunter-gatherers was still living there.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond