UNC-Chapel Hill history professor Kathleen DuVal recently won a Pulitzer Prize for her book, "Native Nations," which ...

These wars redirected European imperial projects ... Many scholars associated with the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association find it outrageous to associate any qualities of empire ...

APRIMARY obligation of Europeans and Americans toward colonial peoples is generally held to be to "educate the native" for self-government. In postwar plans this obligation is usually expressed in the ...

Even though contemporary European slave traders were already publishing books describing the overhand stroke of African and Native American swimmers, Wynman and Digby only explained four strokes.

Southern cuisine is a melting pot, blending African, European and Native American influences to create the flavors we love today. Let's take a closer look at how these cultures came together to ...

They suggest that the worlds of Native peoples became irrevocably disrupted by the most traumatic development in American history: the loss of Indigenous life due to European diseases. Epidemics ...

Native American communities rode, cared for and lived alongside horses nearly a century earlier than European records suggest, a new study has found. The study, published in the journal Science ...

Many responded by inaccurately casting Native Americans as living in a sort of anarchy, a "state of nature" that, they implied or outright declared, European society had outgrown. English ...

The same kinetic strategy often characterized the Native response to European invasion and settlement—the early Spanish attempts to colonize Florida and the American Southwest, the English ...

For others, rock markings and similar Native American drawings are simply evidence of the dynamic cultures that existed on this continent long before the first Europeans arrived. “Figures on the ...

many Native American populations across the Great Plains and the Rockies had incorporated horses into their ways of life by the early 1600s, decades before encountering any Europeans. This ...

Ayer donated more than 17,000 materials. Ayer’s materials had a strong focus on early contact between Native Americans and European settlers and was later expanded to include materials on ...