Warming seas and increased flooding threaten a way of life for Native Americans who have called the Pacific Northwest coast ...

Medoc Mountain State Park in Hollister, North Carolina is exactly that kind of revelation—a place where you can trade your smartphone notifications for birdsong in less time than it takes to stream a ...

From cultural tours to handcrafted treasures, connect with Arizona’s tribal communities and celebrate their unique traditions ...

The Jan. 24 bird song and dance festival, presented by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, celebrates one of Southern ...

It’s estimated that around 7 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, a number that’s expected to double by 2060. But researchers have found that some of the highest rates of cognitive impairment ...

Thomas W. Laqueur. Penguin Press, May 5 ($45, ISBN 978-0-593-65279-4) Historian Laqueur studies the presence of dogs in art, exploring what their inclusion in Paleolithic cave paintings and works by ...

Archaeologists often seek to understand ancient cultures by studying images left behind on rock faces. While these images vary widely, they're a global phenomenon. In fact, petroglyphs and painted ...

Native Americans are those who are indigenous to the United States and there are still 574 federally recognized tribes. They have been around for centuries and continue to cherish their many sacred ...

It’s a sunny spring morning as Nakai Clearwater Northup stands amid white pine trees, near a river, surveying the land. Looking at his Narragansett homelands in southern Rhode Island, he says hunting ...

Ancient canoes found in the bed of Lake Mendota in Madison are giving insight to indigenous ways of life for people living in the area more than 5,000 years ago. As WXPR reported in 2021, an extremely ...

Discover how Maria Martinez revolutionized Pueblo pottery with her innovative black-on-black ceramics, inspired by ancient fragments and created through experimental firing techniques at San Ildefonso ...

Archaeologists in Wisconsin have uncovered 16 ancient canoes at the bottom of Lake Mendota, revealing insights into Native American life from thousands of years ago. This discovery, announced in late ...