Indigenous History Month

November 14: The Trail of Tears in Missouri

In 1830, after decades of pressure from Southern states, and at the urging of President Andrew Jackson, who had risen to power in part as...

November 13 St. Regis Seminary, Florissant (1824-1831): Forced Assimilation

In 1824, Bishop of Louisiana William DuBourg established the second Roman Catholic boarding school for Native children in Florissant off...

November 12: The Iowa

The Iowa, who call themselves Bah Kho-Je (People of the Grey Snow) were, as mentioned previously, once probably affiliated with the...

November 11: The Otoe and Missouria

In 1673, Pere Jacques Marquette and adventurer Louis Jolliet met a tribe of indigenous Siouan people who called themselves the Niutachi,...

November 10: The Osage: The People of the Middle Waters

The Wazhazhe People call themselves “The Children of the Middle Waters.” French trappers and traders who encountered them mispronounced...

November 9: Cahokia and Mississippian Culture

From about 800 CE to 1600 CE, the banks of the Mississippi River near St. Louis were home to a flourishing great civilization known as...

November 8: The Confluence Region: Rivers Run Through

For millennia, the Confluence Region of North America, where the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi Rivers and their tributaries meet, was a...