Shawnee

Early American salt makers exploited productive precedents established by generations of people who had engaged with salt resources for thousands of years.

How the spectacle of the 1806 solar eclipse impacted the national consciousness.

The Iroquois, Shawnee, Cherokee, and other political formations generally separated military and civil leadership and guarded certain personal freedoms.

Pursuing a Native alliance powerful enough to resist the American invaders, the Shawnee leader and his prophet brother envisioned a new and better Indian world.

A just-discovered eyewitness account provides startling new evidence about who fired the shot that sparked the French and Indian War.

Against the backdrop of the Revolution, American Indians recognized a looming threat to their very existence.

For some, it is a luscious dessert, a delightful treasure hiding in the woods. For others, it is, to say the least, an acquired taste. It is an enigma.

An Indigenous sacred site, Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks has served as a military barracks, a fairground and, more recently, a golf course.

Did you know that there was a hidden utopia of formerly enslaved people located in the mountains of Appalachia?

White racial victimhood was a primary source of power for settlers who served as shock troops for the nation.

Congress hasn't declared it often. The U.S. has fought a lot of war anyway. How?

The life of Daniel Boone underlines how the North America of the era was a welter of conflict among and between natives and Europeans.

Actions are more persuasive than words, and manipulating morale often dictates how commanders deploy their troops. Witness the American War of Independence.

Apparently some people communed with spirits to locate the first underground oil reserves.

In a new book, historian Nicole Eustace reveals Indigenous calls for meaningful restitution and reconciliation rather than retribution.

Nearly two centuries later, many tribes remain suspicious of the drive to get them vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Most recent scholarship, while supporting the view that the policy was vicious, has not addressed the question of genocide.

Unlike the statues of Lee and Jackson, these Charlottesville monuments had less to do with memory than they did with an imagined past.

Hunting shirts, backcountry culture, and “playing Indian” in the American Revolution.

The revolution wasn’t only an effort to establish independence from the British—it was also a push to preserve slavery and suppress Native American resistance.