Ohio Names Native American Pipe Official State Artifact
It’s been dubbed the Adena pipe and is now the official...
Survival Cannibalism Confirmed at Jamestown Settlement
Suspicions of cannibalism at the Jamestown Settlement have...
The Long Legal and Moral Battle Over Kennewick Man
He had a name, not that we will ever know it. He also had...
Casa Grande Ruins Among Architectural Marvels of Arizona
While the pyramids of Egypt, some dating back to 4,000 B.C...
Boarding School Visual History Project Gathers Oral Histories
The Los Angeles, California nonprofit Cante Sica Foundation...
A Seminole Perspective on Ponce de León and Florida History
  I always had a thirst, a hunger, for the history of my...
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Researching the Past

Centering the Indigenous Nation

Duane Champagne
March 05, 2013
Outsiders tend to see indigenous nations as static, archaic, dying communities—non-existent at worst, or remnants of ancient, once-noble, but now destroyed or deeply fragmented com...

Abandoned Indian School Graves Will Be Protected

ICTMN Staff
March 02, 2013
The abandoned gravesite has not been in use for over 100 years, but the memories of what it stands for remain...

California Educator Bridges the Generation Gap with Hip Hop

Marc Dadigan
February 28, 2013
Growing up in a small, central California town, Melissa Leal, Esselen/Ohlone, was captivated by the music of rappers and hip hop artists and harbored dreams of becoming a professio...

New York Bridge Renovation Could Unearth Native Artifacts

ICTMN Staff
February 27, 2013
Historians and archaeologists are predicting that Native American artifacts could be found along Newtown Creek during the renovation of the Kosciuszko Bridge that connects Queens a...

Reclaiming Her Identity: A Conversation With Native Adoptee and Author Susan Fedorko

Anne Minard
February 26, 2013
Susan Fedorko was 40 years old when she found her birth family—or rather, when a long-lost sister found her...

The Only One Living to Tell, Excerpt: Massacre's sole survivor finally gets his day in print

ICTMN Staff
February 24, 2013
Editor's note: Hoomothya was a Yavapai Indian who as a boy witnessed the massacre of 225 fellow tribal members at the hands of American soldiers in what has come to be known as the...

Book Review: The Only One Living to Tell, a Story Long Overdue

ICTMN Staff
February 24, 2013
Hoomothya, or Wet Nose, was among the few survivors of the Kwevkepaya, one of four Apache tribal branches grouped under the rubric of Yavapai...

Debunking Lincoln, the 'Great Emancipator'

ICTMN Staff
February 23, 2013
“Tell some historians that ‘Lincoln freed the slaves’ and one can virtually see the smoke come out of their ears,” relates a story about abolitionists on CNN.com ...

Coastal People's Past Powers Their Political Future

Chris Wood, TheTyee.ca
February 22, 2013
[Editor’s Note: Often passed, seldom visited by outsiders, British Columbia’s Central Coast is home to the continent’s longest-settled places and most enduring peoples...

On Its 100th Anniversary, a Look at the History of the Indian-Head Nickel

Rick Heredia
February 22, 2013
November 17, 1915. The mighty bison Black Diamond bravely stood his ground in the Joseph Stern & Co...

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Redskins.com Interviews 'Inuit...
Baby Veronica
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Wounded Knee
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Wounded Knee Historic Site Now for Sale...
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