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Indian Corn – also known as Flint Corn and Calico Corn – one of the three types of maize cultivated by the Native Peoples of North America.

Indian Girl in White Blanket, painting by Robert Henri, 1917. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Photo by Daderot.

Early Indian coins were made by cutting sheets of silver into pieces and marking each piece with one or more symbols using small punches. As there are no portraits or inscriptions, the coins are now known by numbers. This coin, for example...

Teacher and young boys posed for photograph at an unknown American Indian boarding school, c. 1900. Minnesota Historical Society.

Pupils at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. Students were required to wear uniforms and had to surrender traditional attire upon their arrival.

Sir William Johnson saves the life of French General Baron Dieskau after the Battle of Lake George, 1755, oil on canvas painting by Benjamin West, between 1764 and 1768. Derby Museum and Art Gallery.

In the ancient world, some coins had dates on them. giving us precise information as to when people ruled. These coins are inscribed with dates, so they give fixed points in the chronology of ancient states, to which other evidence can be...

The Four Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799) were fought between the British East India Company (EIC) and the state of Mysore. Haidar Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, the "Tiger of Mysore", were relentless foes to British expansion in southern India...

Hare Indian Dog, hand-colored lithograph by John Woodhouse Audubon, 1848. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Wyoming.

The Tughlaq dynasty (also spelt Tughluq), ruled the Delhi sultanate from 1320 to 1413. Followed by the Khalji dynasty and preceded by the Sayyids, the Tughlaq dynasty formed an important period in the history and culture of the Sultanate...