Dance is a unique way of passing on cultural stories to a younger generation. Aaron Hawkins/Flickr.com Many Native languages are dying,...
Native Americans
Why can’t we just quit Columbus? He’s a myth. And we love our myths. By Rick Shenkman / 10.03.2018...
Blessing from the Medicine Man, Howard Terpning®, 2011 / The Greenwich Workshop, Inc. Native American concepts of health...
Looking at at a group of white slaveholders who adopted Southeast Indian boys (Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw) into...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 07.06.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Introduction Geronimo (Chiricahua, Goyaałé; “One Who Yawns”; often spelled Goyathlay in...
“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...
The unfinished Crazy Horse memorial in Custer County, South Dakota. Bernd00/Wikimedia Commons More than a century after he...
It’s not too late to explore our ancient history, and we can begin by grasping a better...
A woman holds Pope Francis’ head during his meeting with representatives of indigenous peoples at the Vatican...
Sam Oozevaseuk Schimmel, 18, has grown up in both Alaska and Washington state. He is an advocate...
Cherokee Heritage Museum / Photo by Wesley Fryer, Wikimedia Commons How many Native Americans died on the...
By Dr. Susan Stebbins Professor of Cultural Anthropology State University of New York at Potsdam Introduction When...
Basketry bowl with checkerboard and arrow head motif / Mint Museum Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh /...
Overview of Pueblo Bonito / Photo by John Wiley, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. P. Scott Corbett, et.al. Professor...
In the 19th century, federal policy shifted from a policy of extermination and displacement to assimilation. The...
Sculptural ceramic ceremonial vessel that represents a dog, c. 100-800 C.E., Moche, Peru, 180 mm high (Museo...
By Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank / 08.09.2015 Assistant Professor of Art History Pepperdine University Wanted: stunning view Cliff dwellings, Ancestral...
Photo by Ivor Molleema, Florida Department of State In an unprecedented discovery, archaeologists identify a site where...
Direct genetic traces of the earliest Native Americans have been identified for the first time in a...
Wakeah Jhane’s mother and little sister in family heirloom cradleboard / Photo provided by Wakeah Jhane Native women...
“Greg is the first Native man I ever heard talk in such depth about what happened to...
By Dr. E.M. Rose / 11.21.2017 Visiting Fellow, Department of History Harvard University Two of the most...
Bessie Black Horn created the Many Hands shirt around 1910 to commemorate the “multiple handshakes” that her...
To Hopi traditionalists—Hopis who practice traditional culture—the humble one-seed juniper tree has deep cultural meaning. / Photo...
Colorado River. AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File By Dr. Rosalyn R. LaPier / 10.08.2017 Associate Professor of Environmental Studies...
The family story Perline Boyattia grew up with said her ancestors were Cherokee Indians. Her oral history...
Ayahuasca vine / Photo by Paul Hessell, Flickr, Creative Commons By Christina Callicott / 03.04.2017 PhD Student...
Kumeyaay coiled basket, woven by Celestine Lachapa, 19th century / Photo by Durova (Wikimedia Commons), San Diego Museum...
People at the United Tribes Technical College Powwow are photographed as an ambrotype in 2016. The crowd...