The first encounters between European settlers and Native Americans are captured on a wood engraving in this 1888 image. DigitalVision Vectors For the third year, the United States will officially ...

American students are often first taught about Native Americans through the frame of European settlers, that native people were simply here when they arrived. But UNC-Chapel Hill history professor ...

Centuries-old documents told of Native American settlements in the Fones Cliffs area of the Rappahannock River in Virginia’s Northern Neck. In the 1600s, English explorer John Smith wrote of how he ...

EXCAVATORS: The Sequoyah National Research Center is run by Dr. Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. (right), the collection’s director and co-founder, and Erin Fehr (left), assistant director and archivist.

Communities across Michigan are gathering to celebrate the state's Indigenous roots this month as November marks Native American Heritage Month nationwide. Present-day Michigan is the ancestral ...