What is the months-long North Dakota Access Pipeline protest really about? A Native American scholar connects the dots to environmental justice and the legacy of U.S. colonialism.
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If your city has a team with a Native American mascot, you’re more likely to hold stereotypical views of Native people.
Cultural resource management archaeologists don’t choose where they dig. Instead they identify, evaluate and preserve cultural heritage sites in locations slated for development.
A 9,000-year-old skeleton became a high-profile and highly contested case for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. How do we respectfully deal with ancient human remains?
Despite significant shortcomings in the negotiation, content and honouring of treaties, they continue to define the nature of the relationship between most Native Americans and the United States.
Christian, criminal or cowardly? People once thought your hair could hold the answer.
Many groups have been labeled ‘enemy’ in the American past. A literary scholar looks at the role literature and philosophy have played in dispelling fears and shifting public attitudes.
At a time when America feels divided and families face rifts, the history of Thanksgiving offers lessons in unity, generosity and faith.
The canonization of an 18th century Spanish priest is causing controversy given the suffering of Native Americans in California’s missions. But there’s a bigger issue at stake here for the church.
For millennia, the Koyukon Athabascan have called the 20,000-foot mountain “the tall one.”
In the face of war, disease and outside cultural pressures, the Chitimacha language has survived – and now thrives.
A genomic sequencing study suggesting that the 9,000-year old skeleton dubbed “Kennewick Man” was Native American will intensify a 20-year-old dispute about what should happen to the remains.
On the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, we asked scholars to reflect on the significance of Armenian insistence on remembering and Turkey’s insistence that the genocide never happened.
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates 2,000 years of artistic achievement.
More than a century after he died, the Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, who famously fought General Custer in the Battle of Little Bighorn, is thought of as transcendent force – attuned to the universe in a…
The film Pride, which won the Queer Palm Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is based on the true story of what seems to be a rare occurrence in human history: two oppressed groups (in this case…
A teenage girl, discovered underwater after thousands of years, was an ancestor of modern Native Americans. A multi-institutional…
The discovery of a nearly complete fossil skeleton of a teenage girl in the Hoyo Negro submerged cave system in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula provides new insight into the first people to inhabit the Americas…
The theory that the Americas were populated by humans crossing from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge was first proposed as far back as 1590, and has been generally accepted since the 1930s. But genetic…
Since Europeans first arrived in the Americas, native peoples have been decimated. In North America, where assimilation was rare and conquest or theft of land has been the norm, things were particularly…
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