(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the large-scale Earth Day protests on April 22, 1970 – often credited with spurring significant environmental protection legislation – Native Americans stewarded ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the large-scale Earth Day protests on April 22, 1970 – often credited with spurring significant environmental protection legislation – Native Americans stewarded ...

On Wednesday, the Rappahannock Tribe announced it acquired the largest amount of its ancestral lands to date with the transfer of nearly 1,000 acres from The Conservation Fund, to be preserved in ...

M ore than 10,000 years ago, a group of Indigenous Americans with close genetic ties to the mysterious Clovis people buried a ...

U.S. Army Lt. John W. Gunnison, then working on a survey of the Great Lakes, wrote a letter to his Mormon friend, Albert ...

The name “San Manuel Band of Mission Indians” was given to the tribe in 1891, reflecting the period of U.S. colonization ... As anti-Native American sentiment grew, armed militia attempted ...

(Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer) Native American tribes ... Band of Mission Indians” was given to the tribe in 1891, reflecting the period of U.S. colonization under the Spanish ...

First discovered by archaeologists in 1940, Spirit Cave Man was paraded at the Nevada State Fair the following summer before being ... which held that modern Native Americans were in fact ...

“savages” by definition lacked reason and remained unfit for inclusion in democracy and civilization. Ever-stronger forms of exclusion characterized the experiences of Native Americans after 1776.

A map of ancestral lands acquired by the Rappahannock Tribe. (Photo courtesy of the ... on the ancient lands surrounding Fones Cliffs. “Before colonization, limited archeological and historical ...