On Mar. 2, Yale University history professor and award-winning author Ned Blackhawk gave a remarkable lecture about the American Revolution’s indigenous origins.
Editor's note:This story, originally published in 2014, was updated on May 5, 2021 with links tothe latest version of Aaron Carapella's map Finding an address on a map can be taken for granted in the ...
It’s probably a euphemism to say the Native Americans moved on. Many were forced westward by early American settlement and federal government policy. The Delaware, who originally lived around the ...
Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was.
American students are often first taught about Native Americans through the frame of European settlers, that native people were simply here when they arrived. But UNC-Chapel Hill history professor ...
Native American girls from the Omaha tribe at Carlisle School, Pa., ca. 1870s. Each year during Native American Heritage Month in November, school classrooms around the country focus on Indigenous ...
Communities across Michigan are gathering to celebrate the state's Indigenous roots this month as November marks Native American Heritage Month nationwide. Present-day Michigan is the ancestral ...
Long before the inception of the United States as a nation, Native American communities already existed, shaping the land, building societies, developing trade networks, and sustaining cultures that ...