It's a surprising and overlooked story, a blind spot in the narrative of early America: the hidden history of Indigenous ...

The Indian way: Epigraphs -- The beginning of newness: a Zuni creation legend -- Origin of the Arikara -- Journey to the West in search of tribal origins / Moncachtape (Yazoo) -- Constitution of the ...

Kasey Keeler talks about federal Indian policy and American Indian suburbanization. Kasey Keeler, assistant professor in American Indian & Indigenous Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ...

For more than 10,000 years before Europeans arrived, the Northeast was home to many tribes with organized leadership and ...

The first encounters between European settlers and Native Americans are captured on a wood engraving in this 1888 image. DigitalVision Vectors For the third year, the United States will officially ...

This year Indigenous People’s Day marks 100 years since Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, granting U.S. citizenship to Native Americans. Americans are usually shocked when they learn that ...

Between 1884 and 1947, from the year that Moses Fleetwood Walker played for the American Association’s Toledo Mud Hens until the Brooklyn Dodgers inserted Jackie Robinson into the lineup, the most ...

Offering apologies is the least the U.S. government can do to help Indigenous communities heal from Indian boarding schools.

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