Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Department of Education said Native Hawaiian, American Indian and Alaska Native history will not be categorized as ...

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Since the turn of the 20th century, Native American photographers have taken the representation of their people into their own hands. In “Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field,” Russel ...

One of the few physical representations of Native American history on the University of Massachusetts campus is the statue of Metawampe, a Nonotuck Chief who sold the land of present day Montague to a ...

For decades, Americans have marked the second Monday in October as “Columbus Day.” Why Columbus? Because, as my generation learned in school, Columbus “discovered America.” But, of course, he did not.

Minnesota doesn’t typically come to mind when you think about slavery and the Civil War. Katrina Phillips Minnesota doesn’t typically come to mind when you think about slavery and the Civil War. It’s ...

When the term Indian appears in the Declaration of Independence, it is used to refer to “savage” outsiders employed by the British as a way of keeping the colonists down. Eleven years later, in the ...

When the City of Kirkland published a document last week about the Native American history of that part of King County, one local historian wasn’t very happy. For even those who pay scant attention, ...

Autumn, the beginning of the school year, is the cruelest season for Native American students in the United States. Between sports games where entire crowds chant about “redskins” and other school ...

While many people focus on shopping deals the day after Thanksgiving, Native leaders hoped Americans also used the day to honor the country's first peoples. The Friday after Thanksgiving is not only ...

In the 1860s, an armed militia swept into the historic land of the Serrano people in the San Bernardino mountains and went on a killing spree, attempting to slaughter the entire tribe. A tribal leader ...