Native Peoples of North America

Join the Smithsonian and an award-winning professor to recount an epic story of resistance and accommodation, persistence and adaption, and extraordinary hardship and survival.

• By This Professor
• 01: Native America: A Story of Survival
• 02: The Columbian Exchange: New Worlds for All
• 03: The Native South and Southwest in the 1600s
• 04: Werowocomoco and Montaup in the 1600s
• 05: Iroquoia and Wendake in the 1600s
• 06: Indian-European Encounters, 1700-1750
• 07: The Seven Years' War in Indian Country
• 08: The American Revolution through Native Eyes
• 09: Indian Resistance in the Ohio Country
• 10: Indian Removal: Many Trails, Many Tears
• 11: Native Transformations on the Great Plains
• 12: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and Uncivil Wars
• 13: Native Resistance in the West, 1850s-1870s
• 14: The Last Indian Wars?
• 15: Challenging Assimilation and Allotment
• 16: American Indians and the Law, 1883-1903
• 17: The Ghost Dance and the Peyote Road
• 18: Native America in the Early 1900s
• 19: American Indians and World War I
• 20: Making a New Deal in Native America
• 21: American Indians and World War II
• 22: Indian Termination or Self-Determination?
• 23: Native Radicalism and Reform, 1969-1978
• 24: Reasserting Rights and Tribal Sovereignty