Genealogical DNA testing is one of the hottest topics in the field of genealogy, and many of us have seen it on TV shows such as Who Do You Think You Are? and Faces of America ...
The Cornell University Genetic Ancestry Project is drawing strong opposition from another part of the institution—Cornell’s American Indian Program —which says the project is based...
The Dawes Rolls were created by the Dawes Commission, which sought to make a complete record of all members of the Five Civilized Tribes, as the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee)...
When Chief Joseph, a renowned Nez Perce leader, surrendered to Europeans in 1877, he gave a special gift to General Nelson Appleton Miles, wrote Vine Deloria, Jr...
Genes from the Beotuk, a long-extinct branch of Canada's aboriginal peoples, have shown up in samples of 80 people from Iceland, a team of anthropologists and geneticists has revea...
In 1956, when Steve Saint was 5 years old, his Christian-missionary father Nate Saint was stabbed to death by the Waoroni Indians at the edge of the Amazon in Ecuador...