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...

“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 ...

In 1668 and 1669, Metacom or King Philip, was given the name by the English after the classical Greek conqueror “for his ambitious and haughty spirit;” and the title “King” to exag...

Columbus Day became a federal holiday to commemorate the landing of Christopher Columbus in the “New World” and his achievements in 1937, but throughout history those achievements ...

Could President Barack Obama , the first African America president of the United States of America, be related to the first documented African slave in America?...

We've made it pretty clear that history has done an awful job of representing the persecution of Native Americans after European contact...

“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...

Indian Country Today Media Network recently shared a few of Rick Santorum’s more outlandish quotes and how they connect to Indian country...