Indians of North America.

Spiro Mounds is the only Native American archaeological site in Oklahoma that is open to the public. Occupied from 850 to 1450, the mound and city complex was once the center of a vast trade network that stretched from the Gulf of California to the Gulf of Mexico and Virginia to the Great Lakes.

On December 29, 1890, some 300 Sioux warriors, women, and children were killed by soldiers at a camp on Wounded Knee Creek.

Quanah was the leader of the Quahadi Comanche when that band became the last of the Plains bands to accept life on a reservation. Thanks to his leadership, they took to reservation life rather well, and Quanah himself became the wealthiest Indian in all of North America.

THE ROBINSON LIBRARY --> American History.

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