Sometime around 1860, Spaniards attacked a Navajo settlement in New Mexico and captured a woman named Ated-bah-Hohzoni, meaning “happy girl.” As she hid behind a cliff with her one-year-old daughter, ...

Communities across Michigan are gathering to celebrate the state's Indigenous roots this month as November marks Native American Heritage Month nationwide. Present-day Michigan is the ancestral ...

Communities across Michigan carry traces of the state's Indigenous roots and contemporary cultures — and Native-owned institutions beckon visitors to explore that history. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Lt ...

A new study in American Antiquity presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. President Trump seems determined to transform America into a straight white Christian nation. He filters our ...

Lansing — A new probe launched by Attorney General Dana Nessel's office just before the Christmas holidays might require investigators to delve into records from nearly 150 years ago to unearth how ...

Missionaries established the Georgia school before Cherokee people were forced on the Trail of Tears. Such schools now face renewed federal scrutiny. Moravian missionaries started a boarding school ...

The award, one of the most prestigious in the field of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.” By Jennifer Schuessler A study of the financial ...

A new Colorado State University study presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by Native American hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12,00 ...

Ancient dice dating back 12,000 years suggest early humans understood chance and probability long before mathematics emerged.

Defending birthright citizenship changes, President Donald Trump's administration is citing an 1884 Supreme Court case called ...