After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

Allied with the local Native American populations, the Black population became known as Black Indians, Black Seminoles, and Seminole Maroons, or Seminole Freedmen. The two intermarried ...

The creation of Mount Rushmore is a story of struggle — and to some, desecration. The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota Sioux, the original occupants of the area when white settlers arrived.