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"Ramona and the Ballad of Juan Diego" will screen at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Jan. 3, 4 and 10.

American students are often first taught about Native Americans through the frame of European settlers, that native people were simply here when they arrived. But UNC-Chapel Hill history professor ...

Perhaps the biggest myth about history in our culture is that history remains static, and historical myths tend to be believed by everyone, even if they aren't true. Like any other ...

We all learned the story of Thanksgiving as kids. We were taught that the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 and were helped by friendly Native Americans to navigate their new home. Together, ...

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 ...

Communities across Michigan are gathering to celebrate the state's Indigenous roots this month as November marks Native American Heritage Month nationwide. Present-day Michigan is the ancestral ...

“Teaching our children true Native American history would not only teach them of the things we are ashamed of but also the contributions of Native Americans that have benefitted our state,” said Rep.

A few months ago, while visiting the rooftop bar at a Residence Inn in Berkeley, I picked up the city’s glossy “official visitors’ guide” and searched it for the historical nuggets that these kinds of ...