Long before the boats of Christopher Columbus touched the New World, North America was thriving and this was thanks to the many Native American tribes that called different regions of this huge ...

A: I think the English began to encounter Native Americans and West Africans more or less simultaneously in the middle years of the 16th century, but developed rather different stereotypes of these ...

NMAI copy 39088015036767 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Cultures Collide begins its story with a mistake; but the mistake was made by Christopher Columbus. When Columbus ...

For Native Americans, putting dinner on the table was a terrifying, oftentimes death-defying, and always full-time job. While many of their foods aren't even around anymore, others have cropped up as ...

In the spring of 1852, U.S. Army Lt. John W. Gunnison, then working on a survey of the Great Lakes, wrote a letter to his Mormon friend, Albert Carrington in Salt Lake City. Among other things, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wisconsin's Aztalan State Park is a National Historic Landmark that showcases restored flat-topped mounds built by Native ...