Joy Harjo, the nation's first Native American poet laureate ... Her new memoir, Poet Warrior, tells the story of her sixth-generation grandfather who survived the Trail of Tears, the 19th-century ...

In her book Art and Empire, scholar Vivien Green Fryd ... wanted their artworks to show why a seemingly powerful Native American warrior would crumple to the ground before a white opponent.

Art from the 19th Century depicting Native American life was put on display ... a Mandan village, an Arikara warrior, Mandan chief Mato Tope or Four Bears, the funeral scaffold of a Sioux chief ...

What being a warrior means in Native American cultures has evolved over centuries with generational attitude shifts, outside influences, and complicated relationships with the United States.