The interactions between Native Americans and Europeans are more complicated than what some history books suggest. Historic Newton and the Natick Historical Society explore the complexities of Native ...

Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, where he is the faculty coordinator for the Yale Group for the Study of Native America ...

Native American communities rode, cared for and lived alongside horses nearly a century earlier than European records suggest, a new study has found. The study, published in the journal Science, ...

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

We live in an interesting time. A movement against facing the truth of US history and acknowledging the existence of systemic racism is sweeping through many parts of our country. Colonization is ...

Monday marks the holiday traditionally known as Columbus Day in honor of Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the Americas, which put the Western Hemisphere on the map for Europeans. However, this day has ...

In “Indigenous Continent,” Pekka Hamalainen aims to upend the nation’s grand narrative, putting Native people and Native power at the center. By Jennifer Schuessler Americans may know the story of ...

Africa’s name does not descend from the epistemic centers of Athens or Rome. The continent carries a name originating not from Greek philosophers or Roman conquerors, but from the indigenous Amazigh ...

Tiny glass beads discovered in mountain caves about 25 miles from the shores of Lake Malawi in eastern-central Africa provide evidence that European trade in the continent’s hinterland was built on ...

Indigenous people are getting increased international attention, which made me notice this statement in a church bulletin: “We humbly acknowledge the Catawba, Sugaree and Waxhaw Indigenous peoples, ...