Before European colonization, North America was home to hundreds of distinct Native American tribes, each with unique cultures, languages, and traditions. Sadly, many of these tribes no longer exist ...

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 ...

Akron celebrates North American First People's Day, the first Monday of October each year. Akron sits along what was once a ...

Today, take a moment to reflect on the contributions of California Native Americans and their examples of resilience and ...

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, ...

The broad term “Native American” is typically used to describe the Indigenous people who inhabited the land now known as the U.S. for thousands of years before European colonization. The origins of ...

Swing your partner and dosey-do. September is National Square Dance Month. Like the culture it came from, square dance has roots in European, Native American and African practices. Square dancing ...

Learn about the Native Americans who lived in the area, when the white Europeans moved in and the creation of Winters Gap.

B efore European colonization reshaped the Americas, Native American tribes and nations thrived across the continent. Many of these groups built advanced societies with large populations, ...