"Totem poles” refer to monumental carvings made from tree trunks by Indigenous peoples from the northern Northwest Coast, in what is now Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. These impressive poles ...

The broad term “Native American” is typically used to describe the Indigenous people who inhabited the land now known as the U.S. for thousands of years before European colonization. The origins of ...

It's Native American Heritage Day. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Ned Blackhawk, a professor of History and American Studies at Yale, about the history of the day and what it means to observe it. The ...