Before 1492, there were about 10 million pre-Columbian Native Americans in what is now the U.S. By the 1890s, there was a range of only 228,000 to 237,000 who remained. Before Colombus arrived in ...

One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names. In more cases than one may think, geographic names were derived from a Native American word ...