The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.

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, ...

Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Native Americans and the European encounter -- The Spanish Empire in America -- The French Empire in America -- Virginia and the Chesapeake -- New England -- The ...

Colonial officials did not simply misunderstand Native engineering, they actively worked to erase it from the record, reshaping how generations of Americans learned to see land, infrastructure, and ...

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 ...

Native Americans and colonialism : an introduction -- Native life and labor : a California rancho perspective -- Revisiting history : Native Americans at Rancho Petaluma -- Lost laborers in Northern ...

Through an extraordinary gift, The New York Historical, New York’s first museum, can now advance its mission of history and ...

On Indigenous Peoples Day, Gabriann “Abby” Hall will be doing a presentation at a Native American event at Central Oregon Community College in Bend. Hall’s first talk was four years ago, also on the ...