With Indigenous languages, we can turn from a narrative of apocalypse—toward stewardship, protection, and love for the...
Native Americans
The U.S. government used family separation and schools to try to erase Native American children’s traditional cultures...
This was a widely held imperialist belief in the 19th-century that American settlers were destined to expand...
Jackson’s goals put the government in conflict with the more than 125,000 Native Americans who still lived...
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has a long history of struggle, protest, and resistance to white...
Exploring archery technology, the production of bone tools and ground stone tools, flintknapping, and prehistoric pottery. Overview...
Community care is at the heart of Indigenous response. In Indian Country, there is a collective experience...
State and federal agencies are impeding tribes’ efforts to handle the pandemic themselves. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is...
Historical racial inequalities have made people of color more susceptible than whites to complications from COVID-19. By...
Water appeared at the very beginning of Cherokee cosmology. When anthropologist James Mooney published the first of...
“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...
She was an outspoken critic of harsh treatment of the Paiute in the American West. For the...
“The whole idea to wipe us off the face of the Earth didn’t work.” One thousand years...
The hoop is symbolic of “the never-ending circle of life.” Introduction Medicine wheels, or sacred hoops, are...
At the time Europeans first began exploring the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River region, three Native confederacies...
The first inhabitants of this land have been expressly disenfranchised for most of U.S. history. November is Native...
An interview with Professor Steven Lekson of the University of Colorado Boulder on the ancient cultures of...
A new book traces the path of pan-Native activism. By Shoshi Parks Months into the Occupation, a...
The federal government assumed greater control over Native reproduction over time. In the 1970s, doctors in the...
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 late eighteenth century was marked by imperial competition, as European powers vied for control of land...
Deep in the Colorado Plateau, there are paintings from an ancient people. Of the thousands of Native...
The 1,000-year-old mound conforms to the natural topography of the site. A Serpent 1300 Feet Long The...
The variety of native traditions, available materials, and architectural expertise has given the continent new and culturally...
The city amended a decades-old ordinance to recognize tribal sovereignty and create more services for Native people...
The short life and long legacy of the 19th-century reformer William Apess. On April 1, 1839, a...
The Anishinaabeg played an outsized role in world affairs. When a young George Washington approached the forks...
Seeking out the histories and communities that existed before Route 66 and that survive still today. By...