SPRINGFIELD, Mo.- Nearly 12,000 years ago, Missouri gained its first residents, Native Americans. Missouri gets its name from the Missouri Native American tribe that lived at the confluence of what… ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kansas, Thursday, Jan. 16. Intelligence has been received here that 4,000 Union Indians in the Cherokee country were attacked, on the 6th, by a superior force of Texan rebels.

The friendly Indians told them they must either trade or fight, and they concluded to trade. The prisoners are now at Fort Pierre, safe and in good hands. One of the women is a daughter of JACOB ...