Indigenous people

Many groups who identify as Indigenous don’t claim to be first peoples; many who came first don’t claim to be Indigenous. Can the idea escape its colonial past?

The Pentagon is increasing its forces on the US territory, but Indigenous residents are fighting back.

The local indigenous population was most affected by environmental change resulting from mining in the Klondike.

‘Specimens’ were acquired from Africa, Asia, and the Americas by deceptive human traffickers.

A tribal collaborative project that seeks to understand settler colonialism and its legacies through the lens of Indigenous enslavement and unfreedom.

The Indians who greeted Columbus were believed to have died out. But a search for their descendants yielded surprising results.

Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe.

To most of the world, “corn” is “maize,” a word that comes from the Taíno mahizwas. Not for British colonists in North America, though.

The American Museum of Natural History holds 12,000 bodies — but they don’t want you to know whose.

To fully understand the deep roots of today’s white Christian nationalism, we need to go back at least to 1493.

A Filipino woman died after coming to the U.S. to be put on display at the 1904 World's Fair. A Smithsonian anthropologist likely took part of her brain.

Why we need to be critical of medical museums as spaces for disability histories.

Thousands of Indigenous children suffered and died in residential ‘schools’ around the world. Their stories must be heard.

While we may never know the full truth, we owe it to those harmed and killed to illuminate their stories.

A new book reverses the narrative of the Age of Discovery, which has long evoked the ambitions of Europeans looking to the Americas rather than vice versa.

Our food system could have been so different.

When most U.S. nationals in the early republic thought of the Pacific Ocean, they conjured lands instead.

Exponentially more enslaved Africans were forced to the lands that now make up Latin America rather than the United States. Where is their story?

Dreams of Central America in the era of the Erie Canal.

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