In the spring of 1852, U.S. Army Lt. John W. Gunnison, then working on a survey of the Great Lakes, wrote a letter to his Mormon friend, Albert Carrington in ...

In the heart of the Arizona desert lies Painted Rock—a site etched with centuries of Native American petroglyphs. These mysterious symbols tell stories of life, travel, and belief carved into stone.

Red Beds and Rusted Rock Across Continents. These extreme climate cycles likely caused widespread oxidation – essentially, rusting – of surface sediments. Over time, this process produced reddish rock ...

Atop Piestewa Peak in Phoenix, veterans remembered Lori Piestewa, the first Native American woman to die in combat while serving in the U.S. military.

Collapsing the distinction between sculpture and painting, she imbued dense layers of encaustic paint with an almost bas-relief dimensionality. Linear slashes and curved incisions reveal bands of ...

For over two decades, Native American practitioners of peyotism, whose numbers in the U.S. are estimated at 400,000, have raised the alarm about lack of access to peyote, which they reverently ...

A Native American-led coalition is pressing the Biden administration to designate three new national monuments in California, with some fearing the chance to protect these areas from mining ...

A cliff on the west shore of Flathead Lake, known as “Painted Rocks,” is adorned with early Native American pictographs, as seen on July 11, 2022. The first pictographs on the cliff are ...

Satellite technology built in the 1990s to create detailed maps of Earth is providing deeper insight into one of the most common Native American rock art motifs found in central Montana, the ...

Paint Rock, a half-mile-long bluff in central Texas, is home to roughly 1,500 painted Native American glyphs dating back hundreds to thousands of years.

The Bears Ears monument is known for its Native American rock art as much as for its spectacular landscapes. One treasure still inside the monument, even after President Donald Trump cut its area ...

Perhaps most important is that thriving Native American societies, including my own, have inhabited Turtle Island, as many tribal peoples prefer to call North America, for tens of thousands of years.