Native Americans
Americans Indians
American Indians on the Frontier:  a Timeline
The Battle of Little Big Horn:  An eyewitness account
The Pursuit and Capture of Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph Speaks, picture of Chief Joseph
Chocktaw Freedmen of Oklahoma
The Ghost Dance of the Lakota Indians.  Picture of Wovoka (medecine man who inspired the Ghost Dance). Wovoka's Message.   Picture of Lakota Ghost Dance shirt
Gold Spells Misfortune
Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee
Native Americans
Native Peoples and the American Indian West:  A great site for information about many different Native American tribes.
Native Americans on the Oregon Trail
Picture of Red Cloud
Seminole Indian Scouts
General Miles on the reasons for the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
Tatanka Yotanka (Sitting Bull)
The Wild West of the Seminole Indian Scouts

   
 

The background music is an original song called the Omaha Funeral Song.  The Omaha had only one funeral song, addressed directly to the spirit of the dead and intended to cheer the spirit on its journey.  (1893)  The original format was a wax cylinder recording.  American Memory, Library of Congress Sound Recordings Division.