McGillivray Alexander (1759-1793), a Creek Indian chief. During the era in which the British, Americans, and Spanish struggled for control of the American Southeast, he played one country against another in an effort to preserve Creek tribal lands.
Jackson, Helen Hunt (1831-1885), a United States writer. Ramona (1884) is a novel on the plight of the Indians in California. See more »
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (17931864), a United States explorer and ethnologist. He was noted for his studies of American Indians. See more »
Albany Congress , a conference held in Albany, New York, in 1754 to prepare a unified colonial defense against the French and their Indian allies. See more »
McGillivray Alexander (1759-1793), a Creek Indian chief. During the era in which the British, Americans, and Spanish struggled for control of the American Southeast, he played one country against another in an effort to preserve Creek tribal lands. See more »
Brant, Joseph, or Thayendanegea, (1742-1807), a chief of the Mohawk Indians, one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois. See more »
Cody, William Frederick (1846-1917), a United States frontier scout and showman, known as "Buffalo Bill." His world-famous Wild West shows were a leading factor in romanticizing the American West and especially the cowboy. See more »
MacDowell, Edward Alexander (1861-1908), a United States composer, pianist, and teacher. See more »
Braddock, Edward (1695-1755), a British general who led a disastrous attack in the French and Indian War. See more »
Fort Dearborn, a military fort erected on what became the site of downtown Chicago. See more »
Catlin, George (1796-1872), a United States painter and author. His paintings, sketches, and writings form an important record of American Indian life. See more »
