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

Sla-hal, to Native people of today, is a game...
When the stolen bodies of Klaas and Trooi Pienaar left their country of birth, South Africa in 1909, it was under the cover of darkness...
We’ve spent the last six days going through Cracked.com’s popular post “ 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America ,” breaking each myth down, taking a look at th...

A unique collection of New York photographs, maps, videos and audio files were recently digitized and are now availa

And so we come to our second-to-last look at Cracked.com’s “ 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America ,” specifically myth #5 , “Native Culture Wasn’t Primitive...
The War of 1812’s 200th anniversary is this year and is being feted in Canada for the pivotal role it played in the formation of the country...
A group of 15 Seneca Salamanca High School students traveled to the Eleventh Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York City (UNPFII) to present...
“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” that’s the adage every kid in grade school is taught. But who cares, he certainly wasn’t the first...
When the “ 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America ” was posted May 15 by Cracked.com is started something of an Internet sensation; and a spike in people searc...
What’s the size of a Smart car and has a shell that could be used as a kiddie pool? If you answered Carbonemys cofrinii , or “coal turtle,” you would be correct...

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