The historian Nick Estes traces two centuries of Indigenous-led resistance and anti-colonial struggle...

"Properties of Empire" challenges assumptions about the relationship between Indigenous and imperial property creation in early America...

What does anti-imperialism look like from the vantage point of North America?

Richardson examines the cultural presence of Indians in the novels, poetry, plays and material culture of the eighteenth-century...

Dallin's statue, set alongside the historical memory of the actual Massasoit and his mythic collaboration with the Pilgrims, shows otherwise hidden dimensions of American memorial culture...

Miller-Davenport takes a close look at some of the narratives that have grown up around the islands and unpacks them...

In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza...

Rather than “living in harmony with nature,” as stereotyped by the ecological Indian mythos, the Blackfeet people of the northern plains believed they could marshal supernatural forces to bend the nonhuman world to their will...

Rosemblatt traces how U.S.- and Mexican-trained intellectuals, social and human scientists, and anthropologists applied their ethnographic field work on indigenous and Native American peoples on both sides of the Rio Grande to debates over race, national culture, and economic development...

With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem...

The Heartland makes a strong case for the Midwest not as a provincial, isolated, region but rather as a place defined by global connections, diasporas, and a wide array of cultures...

Five decades ago, Native American leaders launched a crusade to force museums to return their sacred objects and allow them to rebury their kin...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Diverse in their languages and customs, the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region—the Miamis, Ho-Chunks, Potawatomis, Ojibwas, and many others—shared a tumultuous history...

Richard Oakes was a natural born leader whom people followed seemingly on instinct...

“Is America an Empire?” is a popular question for pundits and historians, likely because it sets off such a provocative debate...

One of the enduring questions in American historiography is: just where exactly is the West?

Farina King argues that education and the creation of “thick” cultural knowledge played, and continues to play, a central role in the survival of Diné culture...

Unpersuaded by the common assumption that James Fort had long ago been washed away by the James River, William Kelso and his collaborators...

Peyote occupies a curious place in the United States and Mexico...

Black Elk witnessed some of the most monumental moments in the history of the Lakota and the Northern Great Plains....

At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, Frederick Du Vernet—Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist—announced a psychic channel by which minds could telepathically communicate across distance...

Kate Fullagar's and Michael A. McDonnell's edited volume Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) reimagines the Age of Revolution from the perspective of indigenous peoples...

In 1999, the Makahs went out on the Pacific for their first whale hunt in over seventy years. The event drew protests from animal rights activists and local (mostly white) Washingtonians...

Brenden Rensink asks the question "How do national borders affect and react to Native identity?"