https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldrush-value-land/ For millennia a diverse population of Native American tribes thrived on the abundant lands ...

This enormous area of the Great Plains, Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and Basin area represented the homelands of many Indian communities. At least 28 tribes might be called Plains Indians.

Two books on the history of indigenous people in the U.S. have received $10,000 awards presented by the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project. Rebecca Nagle’s “By the Fire We Carry: ...