Indigenous narrative

What roiled the mind of Nebraska poet John Neihardt with whom Black Elk, the iconic Lakota holy man, shared his story?

On Raoul Peck's "Exterminate all the Brutes" and the limits of rewriting the narrative.

For the warriors and wanderers who became the Aztec people, truth was not singular and history was braided from many voices.

The story of the 1890 massacre was often about the end of Native American resistance to US expansion. But that’s not how everyone told it.

Over the past year, two prominent historians have invited readers to rethink the master narrative of US history.

A new book investigates the indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the 1500s—a story central to the beginning of globalization.

On the performance of authenticity and the native stories left to tell.

“The Lost Colony” had dramatized American mythology in the Outer Banks since 1937 with White actors as Indians. Now, Native performers are rewriting the story.

Once highly valuable, salt affords a new look at life, environment, and sovereignty in the southwest borderlands.

New evidence suggests that Sacagawea had a longer life than most historians have believed — fifty-seven years longer.

It is impossible to understand the U.S. without understanding its Indigenous history, writes Ned Blackhawk.

What the Medicine Wheel, an indigenous American model of time, shows about apocalypse.

For thousands of years, Indigenous societies were building hundred-foot pyramids along the Mississippi River.

Decades before paleontology’s formal establishment, Black and Native Americans discovered—and correctly identified—millennia-old fossils.

Native editors are fighting back.

A new book provides a framework that engages with “big history” or “deep history” while avoiding explanations that flirt with forms of determinism.

Western landscapes and their names are stratified with personal memories, ancestral teachings, mythic events and colonial disturbances.

We often associate dance with art and performance, but it is also a way that humans document, interpret, and create history.

Conflict between American settlers/revolutionaries and the Cherokee nation erupted in the early years of the Revolution.

Colonial lessons in civility from the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee.