Death Valley. The name evokes a bleached and desiccated ox skull on a vast alkali flat, a desert night snake hiding in the cool shade of its cranial vault...

The Gila River, a tributary to the Colorado, has long been home to the Pima and Maricopa tribes...

Wilma Mankiller, 64, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation in modern times, whose leadership on social and financial issues made her tribe a national role model, died April...

The largest protected wilderness in the United States, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a 19.3 million acre expanse of roadless terrain roughly the size of South Carolina...

Everyone's heard of the Battle of Little Big Horn, even if some know it simply as 'Custer's Last Stand'...

The men’s fancy dance is a colorful, athletic performance that belies its historically significant background...

Did you know that the tobacco plant is at least 2.5 million years old, and originated in northeastern Peru?...

Crazy Horse's face peers out from the granite monolith of Thunderhead Mountain, massive and imposing...