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These North African pirates enslaved American sailors until the US Navy burned their way to victory
Wikimedia Commons The Barbary Wars America’s young navy faced its first real test when North African pirates started seizing ...
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The illiterate Cherokee who invented “talking leaves” and gave his nation higher literacy than white settlers
Wikimedia Commons/Charles Bird King How Cherokee Leader Sequoyah Ensured His People’s Language Survived In 1809, a Cherokee ...
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This Swiss immigrant became Sitting Bull’s advocate and got smeared as his mistress by the government
Wikimedia Commons/Caroline Weldon Caroline Weldon, doomed savior of Sitting Bull Most people have never heard of Caroline ...
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This 1969 prison takeover by Native activists ended Nixon’s policy of terminating Indian tribes
Wikimedia Commons/Dietmar Rabich The Alcatraz Indian Occupation When fire destroyed San Francisco’s American Indian Center in ...
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When the Osage became richer per capita than anyone on Earth, a white rancher started killing them off
Wikimedia Commons The Osage Murders Oil made the Osage Nation incredibly wealthy in the early 1920s, but wealth brought death ...