Alex Reeves plays both Sacagawea and contemporary Jane, Daniel Prillaman, center plays Lewis, and Mark Andrew Tucker is Clark in Lexington Children’s Theatre production of “Sacagawea: Discovering ...

A growing body of evidence suggests she might have survived into old age — which would entirely change the story of America’s most iconic Native forebear. Credit...Illustration by Dadu Shin Supported ...

An aspect of the Lewis and Clark expedition thats often overlooked is that much of their success hinged largely on the good graces of the various Indigenous people on whose land they were crossing.

In 1800, when she was about 12 years old, Sacagawea was kidnapped by a war party of Hidatsa Indians – enemies of her people, the Shoshones. She was taken from her Rocky Mountain homeland, located in ...

Elizabeth “Lil” Fenn wants to frame the story of Sacagawea as a window on the American West, and the National Endowment for the Humanities wants to help her. Fenn, a distinguished professor of history ...

Preserving history is particularly pertinent in this year of celebration, on the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Mable Stoebe touched a tip of that history, and her family may ...

Shoshone Indian, right? The woman on the gold dollar? The lady who was with the Lewis and Clark expedition, which was, uh, a long time ago, and went West and found stuff? OK, maybe we don’t know all ...

Editor’s note: November is Native American Heritage Month. First proclaimed by President George H. W. Bush in 1990, it is an opportunity to acknowledge the histories and cultures of Native people ...

Freshman Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), who this week became one of the first two Native American women sworn into Congress, said it was “offensive and hurtful” for Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to call Sen.