June 4, 2025 – On this day in 1873, another “Indian” war most Americans have never heard of – the Modoc War – came to an end in the high desert straddling present-day California and Oregon. The 18-month war of resistance, in which 52 Modoc warriors and 98 women, children and old men held out […]
Until the mid-1770s, there was a thriving Native agricultural and trading town here – Oaquaga – on a bend in the upper Susquehanna River, in the southern tier of present-day New York State. It was likely established in the centuries after the last glacial age, by the ancient ancestors of the five peoples who combined […]
