When the founders of the United States designed the Constitution, they were learning from history that democracy was likely ...

What was the school's goal? Simply put, cultural genocide. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the U.S. government and religious leaders used compulsory boarding schools to force young Native Americans to ...

For thousands of years, Native Americans have been in the land that’s now known as the United States of America. And yet, their history is still new to most Americans. In fact, the first presidential ...

Most people living in the United States are familiar with the terms “Native American,” “American Indian,” and, increasingly, “Indigenous American” or “Indigenous peoples.” But if you’re still ...

A total of 175 generations of painters followed the same set of rules when depicting the cosmos at Pecos River.

A rchaeologists often seek to understand ancient cultures by studying images left behind on rock faces. While these images ...

Remembering the humanity of Indigenous peoples on International Human Rights Day Dennis Zotigh On December 10, 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted and announced the proclamation of the ...

Visitors to the National Museum of the American Indian can start the month with the two-day Mvskoke Etvlwv: The Muscogee People Festival, Friday, Nov. 1, and Saturday, Nov. 2,10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. each ...

Navajo women instill the love for patterns and math into children at an early age. From intricate numerical systems to astronomical observatories, from suspension bridges to geometrical ornaments and ...

Bird Runningwater heads the Sundance Initiative, which helps produce new works by both Native Americans and Indigenous people worldwide. He talks about Native American fillmmakers and the Sundance ...

David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of financial accounting, corporate and individual tax planning and preparation, and investing and retirement planning.

Since its debut in 1971, an anti-pollution ad showing a man in Native American attire shed a single tear at the sight of smokestacks and litter taking over a once unblemished landscape has become an ...