For centuries, Native American tribes used cultural and controlled burns to nurture healthy ecosystems. These deliberate, low-intensity fires helped maintain ecological balance in the region by ...

“Roots of Wisdom: Native Knowledge. Shared Science” begins its national tour Feb. 13 at Hale La‘akea Windward Community College’s Library Learning Commons in Kāne‘ohe, Hawaii, where it will be on view ...

Teachers often struggle, through no fault of their own, to locate culturally appropriate and historically accurate teaching materials about American Indians. Many textbooks, popular media, and ...

In its continued effort to transform teaching and learning about American Indians, Native Knowledge 360°, the national education initiative of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, ...

Mary Oxendine grew up in Robeson County, NC, among the Lumbee people. As a child of multigenerational farmers, she grew up picking peas and butterbeans, working with her grandmother making sausages, ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Joseph Lee, an author and freelance journalist, is a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe from Martha’s Vineyard in ...

Native American studies graduate students Michael Grofe and Lisa Woodard examine pine needle and sage baskets, respectively, in Carl Gorman Museum. The students say they are excited by their Native ...

The Alaska Native Heritage Center entrance (photo by Jesse Darling, all images courtesy the Alaska Native Heritage Center, unless otherwise noted) America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of ...

Each year, some 3.5 million tourists visit Cherokee, North Carolina, nestled along the Oconaluftee River in the Great Smoky Mountains. The main street of Cherokee, Tsali Boulevard, runs parallel to ...