American Indians and tribal nations have been too long overlooked in the teaching and scholarship of the history of the United States. I have written about the crucial role that indigenous peoples and nations played, for example, in the Lewis and Clark expedition and in American Manifest Destiny.  Robert J. Miller, Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas [...]

I have written and stated many times that American Indian tribes and Indigenous Peoples need to write their own histories because the mainstream academy and historians almost totally ignore the participation, involvement, and influence of Indigenous Peoples on world history and United States history. Thus, I am especially delighted to participate in the following conference being held Friday, May 3, 2013 to [...]

The Washington Post reported in November that the United States Supreme Court will have to decide what Lewis & Clark thought about three rivers in Montana to decide an upcoming case. And the newspaper was correct.  Today, Feb, 22, the Court decided, using the Lewis & Clark journals, that the river was not navigable due [...]

An Associated Press story ran today in papers across the country about the discovery of a Thomas Jefferson peace medal in the American Museum of Natural History’s South American collection. The medal was probably the one given by the Lewis & Clark expedition to Nez Perce Chief Cut Nose in 1806. The newspaper story reports [...]

Rep. Brian Baird of Washington announced a bill to that would extend federal recognition to the Chinook Nation of Washington. The tribe welcomed Lewis and Clark to the Pacific Northwest 200 years ago and helped the expedition survive the winter of 1805-06 at the Pacific coast. The Tribe’s attempts to gain federal status resulted in [...]

I will be speaking Nov. 6, at 3 pm, at a conference at the University of Nebraska Law School in Lincoln Neb. I will also speak at 11:30 am that day to a Native student organization. Nov. 7, I will speak in Sioux City at an event for the Nebraska Indian Community College. Sat. Nov. [...]

In October I will be giving talks back east about the Doctrine of Discovery and speaking at a conference at Albany Law School entitled “God and the Land.” Oct. 1 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Oct. 2 Albany Law School, Albany, NY. I’ll be speaking about Indian religious rights and access to sacred sites on public [...]

In September I will be speaking at the following venues about Indian law issues and my book: September 3, Lacey, Washington, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service training, 9-11 am. Sept. 12, Lawrence, Kansas, Lewis & Clark Diplomacy Symposium, University of Kansas, Bob Dole Center. Sept. 12, Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Ks. Sept. 16, International [...]

On September 27, I will speak at the Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Philadelphia Chapter regional meeting on SURVEYING and CARTOGRAPHY in Lancaster, PA. at the Holiday Inn, 521 Greenfield Road, Lancaster, PA 17601. I will open the day’s event at 8:30AM Speakers Symposium in the Philadelphia Room 8:30—Robert J. Miller, Professor at Lewis & [...]

The issue of gift giving by Europeans to American Indians has always carried implications of European sovereignty and Indian pacification.  Lewis and Clark, for example, handed out Jefferson Peace Medals to tribes during their expedition.  In fact, the United States made presidential peace medals for over a hundred years from President George Washington until 1893 [...]