Directly alongside the trough were the open-air stockades where the Ithumba orphans had already gathered for the night, staring over at their wild counterparts, which, between sips, stared back.

The U.S. government sent in 7,000 troops, who forced the Cherokees into stockades at bayonet point. They were not allowed time to gather their belongings, and as they left, whites looted their homes.

Many became involved in the Civil War. Musicians, nurses, spies, and vivandières all had their parts to play. Before the war ended, many soldiers also became prisoners of war. Drums and shrill fifes ...

Although Georgia is often left out of the Native American narrative, a small but mighty community in the state is keeping a ...

Twenty years ago, when I first heard about “dog poop girl,” I thought, “Well, that’s just South Korea.” In 2005, a young ...

And for thousands of years of human history in every society on Earth, they used physical punishments for certain crimes -- whipping, amputation, all sorts of innovative techniques, stockades ...

"The Trail of Tears starts here. That was when hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Cherokee and other tribal members were ...

Many were taken away wearing only the clothes on their backs, carrying whatever they could grab. The army rounded up 16,000 Cherokees and imprisoned them in stockades, where some waited months to ...

to round up somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 people and put them in stadiums and put them in stockades. Risky because there was still a civil war going on inside Cuba at this point.

At the time, the Pueblo people would have lived in semi-subterranean pit houses enclosed by wooden stockades, engaging in ...

This “stock repertory” includes makeshift clothing, the growth of long beards, the keeping of goats, and the use of stockades. The second class concerns details so much alike that they are no doubt ...