On this day in 1976, the Soweto uprising began in part in response to a new policy of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in schools. South Africa History Online points out that the basis for the …
June 16
Goyaałé was a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. Following the end of the Mexican-American war in 1848, Americans continued to encroach on Apache …
Brother to Tecumseh and often referred to as 'The Prophet', Tenskwatawa was an important Shawnee spiritual leader who helped form Tecumseh's confederacy. A widespread confederacy formed to oppose US …