Mythic Pocahontas Rescue Site, Powhatan Complex Protected
The story goes that Pocahontas saved Captain John Smith...
George Washington Letter Describes Killing of Natives as ‘Villainy’
A letter from George Washington recently acquired by the...
Crazy Theories Threaten Serpent Mound, Demean Native Heritage
Is it home to a mine for spaceship fuel? Could it be a...
Alaska Writer Raises Money to Visit Ancestral King Island Home
Writer, poet and mother of two Jane Naviyak Kane has...
Celebrating 400 Years of the Two Row Wampum
In an effort to maintain a separate and peaceful...
Casa Grande Ruins Among Architectural Marvels of Arizona
While the pyramids of Egypt, some dating back to 4,000 B.C...
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Researching the Past

Celebrate the Great Mound of Mound Bottom in Tennessee

ICTMN Staff
June 22, 2012
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...

Dairy Farms Prospered in Once-Lush Sahara

ICTMN Staff
June 21, 2012

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

Turtle Lodge Calls for Prayerful Water Offering to Mother Earth

Steven Newcomb
June 21, 2012
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...

Rock Art in Australia Shows How Advanced Indigenous Communities Were

ICTMN Staff
June 20, 2012
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 ...

Summer Solstice Ushered in at Ancient Sites

ICTMN Staff
June 20, 2012
From Stonehenge to solar flares online, the summer solstice hits the Northern Hemisphere on June 20. At precisely 11:08 p.m...

Ancient Irrigation in Sonoran Desert Shows Humans’ Longstanding ‘Love-Hate’ Relationship With Environment

Lee Allen
June 19, 2012
Current debates about climate change notwithstanding, humans have tried to harness their environment since time immemorial, from the invention of fire to irrigation...

Tribal Governments: What Price ‘Democracy’?

Duane Champagne
June 19, 2012
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...

War of 1812 Exhibit in Ottawa Offers Four Perspectives

ICTMN Staff
June 18, 2012
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 ...

The War of 1812 Could Have Been the War of Indian Independence

ICTMN Staff
June 18, 2012
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?...

Trouble in Paradise: Book Explores How Hawaii’s Monarchy Fell to the Sugar Barons

Richard Walker
June 17, 2012
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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