At the time Europeans first began exploring the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River region, three Native confederacies...
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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...
The president and his Seneca friend Ely Parker wanted Native Americans to gain citizenship, but their efforts...
General George Washington gave the orders to destroy towns and take prisoners in Sullivan’s Campaign, but her...
Their experiences and memories—in oral histories, interviews, as well as in fiction and film—challenge the narrative of...
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...
Controversies surrounding the 1830 Indian Removal Act reflected the Early Republic’s problem of church and state. “I...
How contemporary southeastern Native writers work to repossess homelands that they rearticulate not as “the South” but...
For indigenous peoples, winter solstice has been a time to honor their ancient sun deity. Their rituals...
Ideas about racial and cultural identity, even among indigenous people, have changed significantly over time. Joseph Louis...
Creative Commons Welcoming tribes to conquering settlers. By Josh Stewart / 04.17.2017 Genocide is the systematic destruction of...
How colonists cloaked violence beneath a veneer of gentility and conquered peoples held to religion to preserve their...
The Little Bighorn Battlefield, Lodge Grass, Montana / Photo by Acroterion, Wikimedia Commons The battle is also...
Dance bonnet and scalplock of an Omaha Indian / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons The legacy and impact of...
Portrait of Assuz, a San Carlos Apache Indian, c 1898 / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons The pictures...
Dance is a unique way of passing on cultural stories to a younger generation. Aaron Hawkins/Flickr.com Many Native languages are dying,...