Indigenous people

A brave band of scholars set out to save us from racism and sexism. What happened?

These maps drawn by Indigenous artists depict a union of visual traditions during the 16th century.

A newly digitized map offers a rare glimpse at the way Europeans conceived of the Americas before British colonization.

However the Little Ice Age came to be, we now know that climatic cooling had profound consequences for contemporary societies.

Jill Lepore's widely-praised history of the U.S. relies on the eventual exit of indigenous actors to make way for other dramas.

A Native student explains why the holiday is a painful reminder of a whitewashed past.

Two genetic studies show how the first Native Americans spread through their new continent with incredible speed.

How a rare copy of the U.S.-Navajo Treaty, once thought lost, was found in a New England attic.

An appreciation of Alfred Crosby, who coined the term "Columbian exchange."

2,000 years ago, people domesticated these plants. Now they’re wild weeds. What happened?

Traveling to the heart of Mexico for a Ceremonia del Perdón.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Pre-Columbian bodies are once again being used as evidence for extraterrestrial life.

The dictator modeled his racial campaign after another conquest of land and people-America's Manifest Destiny.

Do you live on Native American territory?

The fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline is part of a centuries-long indigenous struggle against dispossession.

Writer Tony Horwitz, author of A Voyage Long and Strange (2008), discusses his search for the “real” Christopher Columbus.

A series of objects of both Native and non-Native origin that tell a story of extraordinary culture disruption.

On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.

Historians are working to shine a light on Alice Ball’s legacy and contributions to an early treatment of a dangerous and stigmatizing disease.