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With guest host Jane Clayson. A new exhibit at the National Museum of American Indians takes visitors from the Trail of Tears to Native Americans in pop culture. We’ll talk with the curators of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Demonstrators stand outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, as the court hears arguments over the Indian Child Welfare Act on Nov. 9, 2022, in Washington. The Supreme Court has preserved the system that ...

The CLEVELAND AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT (AIM) was founded by RUSSELL MEANS, a Lakota Sioux activist and Objiwa activist Dennis Banks in 1970. Banks had helped found the original AIM in Minneapolis two ...