The story goes that Pocahontas saved Captain John Smith...
A letter from George Washington recently acquired by the...
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Writer, poet and mother of two Jane Naviyak Kane has...
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Researching the Past

Willie Johns, FORUM magazine
April 08, 2013
I always had a thirst, a hunger, for the history of my people. But when I was growing up, nobody talked much about it. There wasn’t time for much besides survival...
If the many issues facing Indian country are not better known or understood it is partly because the major media have failed to cover them properly...
The Hess Corporation’s development of oil resources on Taĥċa Wakutėpi (Killdeer Mountain) on the edge of the North Dakota badlands threatens to destroy the integrity of a site sacr...
Famed tightrope walker Nik Wallenda last made headlines in June 2012 by tightrope walking across Niagara Falls...
HuffPost Live host Ricky Camilleri was joined by four Native voices to talk about the sale of the land where the Wounded Knee Massacre took place...
The headline alone sparked outrage. “Educate First Nations to be Modern Citizens,” trumpeted the title. And it went downhill from there...
Two universities located 1,000 miles apart are joining forces to explore one of Colorado’s darkest moments...
As part of the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign a symbolic canoe trip from Albany to New York City will take place this summer with Haudenosaunee, other Natives and supporters...
When tribes, whose ancestors are the subject of a museum exhibit, are against that exhibit and ask for it to be closed pending further consultation, it’s obvious something is amiss...
Lee Allen
March 27, 2013
The Pima Indian word for the Hohokam peoples translates to “all used up” or “the finished ones,” but archaeologists digging in Arizona’s University Indian Ridge Ruins continue to f...

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