Artist George Catlin traveled to the American West and painted Native Americans in their homelands, before the land was carved up...  ...idea of allowing outsiders to come in and see the Native Americans was exploitive at best, although what ended up ha...  ...tle to acknowl...

People have long held a morbid curiosity about dea...  ...Egyptian mummies when the practice of displaying Native American remains is no longer accepted? It all appears to...  ...re is anyone left who cares.Like the treatment of Native Americans , the collection of Egyptian skeletons is rooted i...  ...ard for t...

It’s pretty rare to see someone from the 19t...  ...smiling in a photograph, and even rarer to see a Native American from the era with a big smile. But this young lad...

Olive Oatman and her family traveled from Independ...  ...in Arizona, the family was attacked by a group of Native Americans , thought to be Yavapai. The two parents and four...

Every once in a while, you’ll see a tree tha...  ..., for a reason. Specifically, some trees found in American forests were bent by Native Americans for the purpose of marking trails. They were sign...  ...scanning the historical records, and interviewing Native Americans...

If you find an authentic Native American basket in an antique store, you have a real find...  ...a and Alan Blaugrund, authors of the book Antique Native American Basketry of Western North America, tell us about...  ...ketry of Western North America, tell us about the Native American...

Scientists have confronted a mystery of how the Am...  ...Asia around 20,000 years ago are the ancestors of Native Americans , yet modern people look rather different from tho...  ...g the Ice Ages.Thus, according to the report, the Native Americans and the Paleoamericans are the same people, desce...

(Image credit: Lalo Alcaraz)In 2002, cartoonist La...  ...about sports teams and fans who use disrespectful Native American names, mascots, and imagery. Ann Boobus remembere...  ...leveland Indians home opener. Protesters from the American Indian Movement were outside the arena to urge th...

[http://youtu.be/Y1uwsqT2Kkc] (YouTube link)150 years ago today, 38 Dakota men were hanged in Minnesota for actions during the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. It was the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Of the 392 prison...

Goyahkla was an everyday Apache tribesman until th...  ...ue. The intent, one newspaper stated, was to show Americans “that they have buried the hatchet forever....