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

Indigenous nations are spearheading a movement to restore buffalo to the American landscape.

The national parks are the closest thing America has to sacred lands, and like the frontier of old, they can help forge our democracy anew.

Nearly two centuries later, many tribes remain suspicious of the drive to get them vaccinated against the coronavirus.

A Story Map that highlights events, sites, and people important to Native American history.

The story of Indigenous women’s participation in the struggle for women’s suffrage is highly complex, and Zitkala-Ša’s story provides an illuminating example.

A recent history centers the Lakota and the vast territory they controlled in the story of the formation of the United States.

A digital companion to "We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us," telling the story of Native American resistance to forced resettlement on reservations.

A case study in re-reading nineteenth-century delegation photography.

Unlike the statues of Lee and Jackson, these Charlottesville monuments had less to do with memory than they did with an imagined past.

Indigenous scholars have long contested the “virgin-soil epidemics” thesis. Today, it is clear that the disease thesis simply doesn’t hold up.

A look back at the early years of the 350-year-old institution that once claimed a vast portion of the globe.

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

On June 15, 1846, Francis Parkman Jr., a young, Harvard-educated historian, arrived at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, to begin his journey along the Oregon Trail.

The U.S. didn't buy a huge tract of land from France. It bought the right to displace Native Americans from that land.

A closer look at non-Native Americans that appropriate, fabricate, and invent Native identities for themselves.

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