The story goes that Pocahontas saved Captain John Smith...
A letter from George Washington recently acquired by the...
Is it home to a mine for spaceship fuel? Could it be a...
Writer, poet and mother of two Jane Naviyak Kane has...
In an effort to maintain a separate and peaceful...
While the pyramids of Egypt, some dating back to 4,000 B.C...
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Researching the Past

In observance of National Sacred Places Prayer Days , a Muscogee “Creek” Citizens Gathering will take place on Saturday, June 23, at 10 a.m., at The Great Mound, Mound Bottom archa...

Picture the Sahara desert. Now picture it filled with herders milking cattle. Hard to believe, right?

From May 24 through 27, 2012, Valerie Taliman and I attended the Gathering of Wisdom Keepers, organized by Anishnaabe spiritual leader Dave Courchene and the Turtle Lodge , which i...
Experts said Monday, June 18 that they were able to date aboriginal rock art found in remote Australia at 28,000 years old, putting it among some of the world’s oldest, and making ...
From Stonehenge to solar flares online, the summer solstice hits the Northern Hemisphere on June 20. At precisely 11:08 p.m...
Current debates about climate change notwithstanding, humans have tried to harness their environment since time immemorial, from the invention of fire to irrigation...
A puzzling aspect of the term tribe is its lack of a clear definition. Even the Department of the Interior, the last word on federal recognition, doesn’t have one...
A new exhibit at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario takes a new approach at looking at the War of 1812, delving into the four perspectives of each group involved—Canadians ...
Today marks the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, a war all but forgotten in American history books. But what did that war mean for this country’s Indigenous Peoples?...
Julia Flynn Siler’s Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012) is a meticulously researched narrative...

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