From advanced civilizations to devastating betrayals, Native American history is deeper and more complex than many realize.

Durham historian Kathleen DuVal's latest book, "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America," spans more than 700 pages.

Several sites along the Natchitoches Trace have been labeled as a persistent place, which is to say a place that has been ...

This is not an idea I was exposed to as a graduate student. Like many others in my field, I had virtually no exposure to the actual process of repatriation, even more than a decade after the Native ...

native american boarding schools had been started much earlier by christian missionaries. THE 1887 DAWES ACT REINFORCED THE RESERVATION SYSTEM AND ENCOURAGED ASSIMILATION.

Historic Native American trails tend to bind together, like a string of freshwater pearls, historic "persistent places" in the Americas. Many of these places were once inhabited by Native ...