Ohio Names Native American Pipe Official State Artifact
It’s been dubbed the Adena pipe and is now the official...
Survival Cannibalism Confirmed at Jamestown Settlement
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The Long Legal and Moral Battle Over Kennewick Man
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A Seminole Perspective on Ponce de León and Florida History
  I always had a thirst, a hunger, for the history of my...
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Researching the Past

Wisconsin Garden Dedicated to Recognize Ho-Chunk Ancestral Lands

ICTMN Staff
August 22, 2012
To commemorate the ancestral lands of the Ho-Chunk Nation, Gunderson Lutheran, a healthcare organization based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, dedicated the 7th Street Healing Garden in G...

Fort Sill Apache Tribal Chairman Jeff Houser Talks About Past and Future Challenges

Brian Daffron
August 16, 2012
Jeff Houser’s road to the office of chairman for the Fort Sill Apache Tribe ran through the American South...

Minnesota Historical Society Reflects on 150th Anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862

ICTMN Staff
August 15, 2012
This year marks the 150 th anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 and the Minnesota Historical Society is encouraging discussion and reflection about what it dubs “a tragic tim...

Chocolate May Have Been More Than a Beverage to the Maya

ICTMN Staff
August 12, 2012
Long thought to be a beverage reserved for the ruling class and priests, archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History say chocolate could have been used f...

Archaeologists Uncover Hundreds of Bones in Unusual Aztec Burial in Mexico

ICTMN Staff
August 10, 2012
The remains of a young woman were found surrounded by 1,789 human bones in Mexico City’s Templo Mayor—a find that is the first of its kind in the Aztec culture according to researc...

Maryland College Awarded Grant to Study Potomac River Archaeological Sites

ICTMN Staff
August 08, 2012
St...

Ritual Use of Caffeinated ‘Vomit Drink’ Discovered at Cahokia

ICTMN Staff
August 07, 2012
Made from the roasted leaves of the Yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria) that grew more than 300 miles away, researchers found evidence that inhabitants at Cahokia were enjoying caffeinat...

A Seminole Warrior Gets His Due in Osceola and the Great Seminole War

Michelle Tirado
August 05, 2012
Osceola and the Great Seminole War: The Return of a Legend Crazy Horse. Geronimo. Sitting Bull. Cochise...

Questions Arise Over Authenticity of Custer Gauntlets and Accompanying Oral History

Simon Moya-Smith
August 01, 2012
At first, it seemed that an elusive piece of the past had been rescued from oblivion...

Genealogists Say Obama Could Be Descended From First Documented Slave

ICTMN Staff
July 31, 2012
Could President Barack Obama , the first African America president of the United States of America, be related to the first documented African slave in America?...

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