Native American culture

The university’s Peabody Museum exploited loopholes to prevent repatriation to the Wabanaki people while still staying in compliance with NAGPRA.

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

On ramps, xonacatl, skunk eggs and more.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Siege of Wounded Knee, the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee by American Indian Movement (AIM) activists.

“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.

Here’s what it’s like to report on the process as an Indigenous journalist.

The Lakota advocate helped thousands of domestic abuse survivors, Native and non-Native alike.

After the Spanish conquest, horses transformed Native American tribes much earlier than historians thought.

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.

The remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans are held by prestigious U.S. institutions, despite a 1990 law meant to return them to tribal nations.

Why the truth is crucial, even it it means losing an American Indian hero.

These invisible chemicals changed the Mohawk way of life. They’re probably already in you, too.

Poplar—ubiquitous in timber, landscape design, and Indigenous medicines—holds new promise in recuperating damaged ecosystems.

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

To renew Yosemite, California should embrace a once-outlawed Indigenous practice.

What a new book and six companion videos have to say about the fate of Black classical music in America.

The captivity narrative as creation myth.

On the relationships formed and marriages made by the fur trade.

The unauthorized removal of the monument took place during the racial justice protests of summer 2020.