Water appeared at the very beginning of Cherokee cosmology. When anthropologist James Mooney published the first of...
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Accounts of Powhatan authority hint that a complex set of dynamics shaped the Powhatan political realm. Introduction...
The most famous event of Pocahontas’ life, her rescue of Captain John Smith, did not happen the...
President George Washington forced St. Clair to resign his post and Congress initiated its first investigation of...
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 hoop is symbolic of “the never-ending circle of life.” Introduction Medicine wheels, or sacred hoops, are...
Many different groups of American Indians with distinct cultures inhabited the western region of North America. Geographic...
Some indigenous peoples of the Americas supported agriculturally advanced societies for thousands of years. Introduction The indigenous...
At the time Europeans first began exploring the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River region, three Native confederacies...
The U.S. National Park Service has overseen the site’s ruins since it was first registered in 1924...
An interview with Professor Steven Lekson of the University of Colorado Boulder on the ancient cultures of...
Though he was adopted by the Lakota Nation, he clung to a paternalistic mindset. During the summer...
Harriot had the right temperament for his diplomatic role – he was open, curious, and notably non-judgmental....
Williams’s captivity narrative reinforces what we already know about religious life in colonial North America: mutual distrust...
Native American assistance to freedom seekers crossing through the Midwest has largely been erased from Underground Railroad...
How did U.S. and Native American artists portray Indian peoples of the West in the late nineteenth...
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 variety of native traditions, available materials, and architectural expertise has given the continent new and culturally...
Used by the indigenous peoples of the Americas for millennia, it was only in the last decade...
What we think we know about the arrival of Homo sapiens on this continent. In the 1970s,...
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...
Half a continent west of the 13 colonies, the Lakota Sioux were founding a nation of their...
Who identified as “American” during the Revolution? To what extent did the American Revolution serve the interests...
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...
In the years after the French and Indian War, Britain’s strategies to keep its Native American alliances...