For thousands of years, Native Americans have been in the land that’s now known as the United States of America. And yet, their history is still new to most Americans. In fact, the first presidential ...

Ned Blackhawk, an expert on the history of indigenous people in North America, has been appointed the Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Professor of History and American Studies, effective July 1. He is a ...

For more than a generation, historians have been researching and writing American Indian history and showing how to incorporate it into U.S. history. The title of a 2015 collection of academic essays ...

Chronology of American Indian History -- Part A: Creation to 1715: "The Creation of Beginning (Navajo/Dine)" -- White Mountain Apache Creation Story -- Inupiat Creation Story -- Salish Creation Story ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State is observing Native American/American Indian History Month with events hosted by university groups and a keynote from Chief Cyrus Ben of the Mississippi Band of ...

Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, where he is the faculty coordinator for the Yale Group for the Study of Native America ...

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The people who represent the hundreds of Native American tribes located within the United States have a rich and accomplished history that continues to evolve. Their impact permeates many aspects of ...

The Trump administration is reviewing the National Museum of the American Indian as part of a wider assessment of the Smithsonian. The museum's exhibits detail treaties between the U.S. and Native ...

Robert Soto, of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas, led the Huisache Creek Singers during the calling song at American Indian Heritage Day in 2019.( Ron Baselice - Staff Photographer ) American Indians ...

NMAI copy 39088012436358 is gift from the Library of Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. The fires of the holocaust that consumed American Indians blazed in the fevers of newly encountered diseases, the flash of ...