Before America was the United States of America ... What made them one of the most powerful Native American tribes in history? Katy Perry takes last-minute astronaut lessons before rocket to ...

South America and what is now Mexico, such as the Maya, Incas and Aztecs. But in “Native Nations,” the scholar Kathleen DuVal reminds us that, a millennium ago, indigenous people across North ...

Hidden details in a historic map have helped shed light on one of the great mysteries in American history. The 16th-century map provides insights into the fate of the settlers who formed the so ...

Check out the documentaries below to begin your learning journey on this traumatic part of U.S. history ... Learn more in the Native America series' companion blog "Legacy of Trauma: The Impact ...

UNC-Chapel Hill history professor Kathleen DuVal recently won a Pulitzer Prize for her book, "Native Nations," which chronicles Native history in North America over the last 1,000 years.

This book provides an incredibly informed legal history of contemporary Native America after the Second World War and the rise of Native American activism in the nineteen-sixties and seventies.

America's national parks and other scenic landscapes are often celebrated for their beauty and grandeur, but they hold deeper significance as the ancestral homelands of Native tribes. Through ...

As the department's first-ever native secretary, Haaland says she thinks about her elders and the U.S. government's historical policy of assimilation every day. "My grandparents worked on the ...

For nearly a century, since the era of silent film, Native American movies made in Hollywood has provided the primary avenue for Indigenous images and stories to be displayed to non-Native audiences.

The horse has played a central role in the history and mythology of many Native American tribes. The Shoshone, Crow, Blackfeet, Sioux, and other tribes first saw horses when Spaniards brought them ...