Choctaw Nation

One act of generosity during the Great Famine forged a bond that transcends generations.

The struggle over blood and belonging in American Indian communities.

Some Native Americans chose to fight for the Southern cause.

My ancestors were enslaved—but their freedom came at a price for others.

From Claudio Saunt's Cundill Prize-nominated "Unworthy Republic."

Europeans didn’t just displace Native Americans — they enslaved them, on a scale historians are only beginning to fathom.

Thanks to an 1835 treaty, they’re pushing Democrats to approve a nonvoting delegate.

On the legal challenges to racist presidential policy that led to the Trail of Tears.

Clashes between sovereignty rights and civil rights reveal an uncomfortable and complicated story about race and belonging in America.

In the 19th century, Native American nations were early pioneers in constitutional democracy.

After the U.S Supreme Court forced school integration in early 1970, white families fled to either racist Central Academy or new Mennonite schools.

The pawpaw is finding champions again after colonizers' dismissal, increasing globalization and economic needs.

For centuries, everyone from archaeologists to amateurs pillaged artifacts — and human remains. Now, the FBI is cracking down on those who continue to dig.

A state with an often-overlooked history of enslavement demonstrates the lasting significance and geographic reach of the Haitian Revolution.

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

One of the world's first mass deportations, bureaucratically managed and large-scale, took place on American soil.

Social movements that have pushed for inclusion and equality in the South have often evaded or ignored the issue of Native land and sovereignty.

A Louisiana tribe’s long fight against the American tide.

A Supreme Court case about jurisdiction in an obscure murder has huge implications for tribes.

The bizarre origin story of the surprisingly exceptional Oklahoma City, in a government-sanctioned raid called the Land Run.