Ciudad Blanca, the Lost White City of Honduras, Possibly Found Under Rainforest
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Ohio Names Native American Pipe Official State Artifact
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Survival Cannibalism Confirmed at Jamestown Settlement
Suspicions of cannibalism at the Jamestown Settlement have...
The Long Legal and Moral Battle Over Kennewick Man
He had a name, not that we will ever know it. He also had...
Casa Grande Ruins Among Architectural Marvels of Arizona
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Researching the Past

U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 Anniversary Brings Heritage to Forefront for South Dakota Man

ICTMN Staff
August 29, 2012
With this year being the 150 th anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 , many are reflecting on the war’s aftermath, including Myron Taylor, who has been facing his personal hi...

Discovery of Long-Lost Silent Film With All-Indian Cast Has Historians Reeling

Jordan Wright
August 28, 2012
How a silent film featuring an all-Native cast came to be made, lost (seemingly forever), discovered nearly a century later (in shambles), then restored and shown to the cast’s des...

Faith and Culture Converge in Native American Christianity

ICTMN Staff
August 27, 2012
In an editorial posted August 27 on the Huffington Post website, the Rev. Dr. Randy S. Woodley discusses Native American Christianity and how faith affects culture ...

Multiple Causes Cited for Mayan Demise Including Climate Change

ICTMN Staff
August 24, 2012
Two recently published studies delve into what caused the collapse of the Mayan empire, a question many archaeologists have tried answering...

Archaeological Dig Reveals Causes—and Possible Cures—for Diabetes Epidemic

Eisa Ulen Richardson
August 23, 2012
The future health of Natives may lie in the scatological remains of the past—a vanguard study of ancient excrement has offered fresh new ways of thinking about the prevalence of di...

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...

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