Long before the boats of Christopher Columbus touched the New World, North America was thriving and this was thanks to the many Native American tribes that called different regions of this huge ...

Depending upon the narrative, American Indians were either noble creatures who were victims of a genocide by rapacious ...

A: I think the English began to encounter Native Americans and West Africans more or less simultaneously in the middle years of the 16th century, but developed rather different stereotypes of these ...

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 Salt Lake City. Among other things, ...

NMAI copy 39088015036767 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Cultures Collide begins its story with a mistake; but the mistake was made by Christopher Columbus. When Columbus ...

KINGSTON, Mass. — Asa Peters marched into a thicket of Japanese knotweed in the woods of coastal Massachusetts this month and began steadily hacking the towering, dense vegetation down to size. The 24 ...

For Native Americans, putting dinner on the table was a terrifying, oftentimes death-defying, and always full-time job. While many of their foods aren't even around anymore, others have cropped up as ...

Christopher Columbus’s expeditions to the Americas brought tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, beans, squash and maize to Europe, but what about the other way? What crops grew in Europe that Native Americans ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. BOSTON, MA - NOVEMBER 29: Members of the Wampanoag Nation ...