 |
 Pocahontas was one of many daughters of Powhatan,
the leader of an alliance of about 28 Powhatan
tribes in the Tidewater region of Virginia. She
encountered her first Englishmen when they
established Jamestown in May of 1607, and she
became a frequent visitor to the settlement after
meeting Captain John Smith in December of that
same year. |
 Comanche
had survived being wounded three times before
being ridden into the Battle of the Little
Bighorn. And, although was not the only horse to
survive that battle, he was by far the most
famous one. |
 The
Battle of the
Little Bighorn, fought
June25-26,1876, is commonly known as
"Custer's Last Stand" because it was
here that General George A. Custer and about 210
of his men were killed by a combined force of
Lakota and Northern Cheyenne. |
 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. |
