Water appeared at the very beginning of Cherokee cosmology. When anthropologist James Mooney published the first of...
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“We’re helping other nations with billions in aid, and the Navajo are still waiting on aid.” Remi...
The Transcontinental Railroad facilitated the colonization of western territories by encouraging new settlements on Indigenous lands. The...
“The whole idea to wipe us off the face of the Earth didn’t work.” One thousand years...
Aborigines were hunter gatherers – not cultivators – so there was little intentional interference with natural selection...
The hoop is symbolic of “the never-ending circle of life.” Introduction Medicine wheels, or sacred hoops, are...
Some indigenous peoples of the Americas supported agriculturally advanced societies for thousands of years. Introduction The indigenous...
In Namibia, San people are finding ways to adapt to modern life whilst keeping their culture and...
At the time Europeans first began exploring the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River region, three Native confederacies...
An interview with Professor Steven Lekson of the University of Colorado Boulder on the ancient cultures of...
By mistaking a culture’s history for fantasy, or by disrespecting the wealth of indigenous knowledge, we’re keeping...
Native American assistance to freedom seekers crossing through the Midwest has largely been erased from Underground Railroad...
The city amended a decades-old ordinance to recognize tribal sovereignty and create more services for Native people...
Through a voluntary land tax and donations from land owners, this organization is working to create an...
A Native American protestor at the People’s Climate March in Washington, DC in April, 2017. Source: Nexus Media...
Balgo artists: Miriam Baadjo (b. 1957),Tossie Baadjo (b. 1958), Jane Gimme (b. 1958), Gracie Mosquito (b. 1955),...
Why can’t we just quit Columbus? He’s a myth. And we love our myths. By Rick Shenkman / 10.03.2018...
The Nicoleños, an Indigenous group that lived on San Nicolas Island, used a multistep process to fashion...
A Muisca (Chibcha) seated gold figure on a stool (tunjo). Colombia, 10th-16th century CE. (Metropolitan Museum of...
There are more than 100 “uncontacted” tribes in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest – the highest anywhere on the...
“The act of ripping children away from their parents is nothing new for the United States. Separating...
The First Salmon ceremony being performed. U.S. Department of Agriculture , Public Domain Indigenous people from around the world revere...
It’s not too late to explore our ancient history, and we can begin by grasping a better...
Sculptural ceramic ceremonial vessel that represents a dog, c. 100-800 C.E., Moche, Peru, 180 mm high (Museo...