We all learned the story of Thanksgiving as kids. We were taught that the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 and were ...

What made this encounter truly extraordinary was Samoset's command of the English language. He had learned to speak English from fishermen who worked the waters off Monhegan Island in the Gulf of ...

NMAI copy 39088015036767 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Cultures Collide begins its story with a mistake; but the mistake was made by Christopher Columbus. When Columbus ...

Our future as a nation depends on remembering that we rise higher when we rise together. The Native story is the American ...

America's culinary heritage has been heavily influenced by other cuisines, so it's not especially easy to define exactly what ...

This MA Native American tribe sat down with Pilgrims at the 'first' Thanksgiving, but it didn't go as the traditional story suggests.

Native American Heritage Month is a great time to highlight a relatively unknown part of one of the most special cities on the globe: the contribution of Native Americans to the musical universe of ...

In the spring of 1852, U.S. Army Lt. John W. Gunnison, then working on a survey of the Great Lakes, wrote a letter to his Mormon friend, Albert Carrington in Salt Lake City. Among other things, ...

Before the Mayflower: The Vikings and the French. The Wineland of Leif the Lucky. First Blood: The Death of the Carpenter of St. Malo. The Fight at Fortune: Champlain at Stage Harbor -- The Coming of ...

As the United States marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Native Americans are a part of the ...

When River Kerstetter was asked about three years ago to help curate an exhibit at the Newberry Library about Native Americans and pop culture called “Native Pop!,” she said getting involved with the ...

We must recognize and celebrate the enduring contributions, leadership and resilience of Native American communities in ...