BackStory podcast in which the American History Guys and guests explore the history of images and depictions of Native Americans and how Native Americans have fought against certain representations and reinvented themselves. The audio...

Native Americans were perceived in the Constitution as non-citizens and were not allowed to vote or receive representation in the government.

Even with the passing of the Fourteenth Amendment, Native Americans were not recognized as full citizens of the United States, so still could not vote.

A series of government acts, beginning with the Dawes Act in 1887, offered citizenship to Native Americans, with the aim of destabilizing tribal governments and absorbing Native Americans into mainstream society.

Native Americans faced many obstacles to the enjoyment of full citizenship rights even after the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. It was not until the 1960s that Congress enacted legislation to ensure that they and other minority groups...

The 24th Amendment of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 addressed inequalities in voting rights for Native Americans and other minority groups, and removed blocks such as literacy tests and language fluency.

Listen to an interview [12:19] with a Sioux tribal leader who discussed the positive changes brought by the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. It dramatically changed the federal government's policies toward Native Americans.

Map of the area between the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, explores the differing attitudes towards land and living of Europeans and Native Americans in the 18th century. He looks at a...

Read and listen to a 1968 interview with a Sioux attorney who discusses his view of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 which changed the federal government's policy towards Native Americans. [5:16 min.]

National Public Radio explores the history of the great totem pole carvings created only by Native Americans of the northwestern coasts of North America.

Stone pipe shaped as an otter and used in ritual tobacco-smoking. The pipe is one of hundreds shaped as animals that were found in huge mounds in present-day Ohio. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, pieces together the...

This sharp spearhead helps us understand how humans spread across the globe. By 11,000 BC humans had moved from north-east Asia into the uninhabited wilderness of north America. Within 2,000 years they had populated the whole continent....