Indigenous Peoples Day is meant to recognize the painful history Indigenous people have faced and to celebrate their ...

The Arctic and Subarctic -- The Northeast -- The Southeast -- The Plains -- The Southwest -- The Great Basin and Plateau -- The Northwest Coast -- California Summary "More than 160 tribes are featured ...

Annually, on Independence Day, the News Tribune Opinion page publishes the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, which was put together by Thomas Jefferson and his fellow patriots and which was ...

On October 14, 1964, history was made on the track in Tokyo, Japan, as Billy Mills, a relatively unknown American runner, ...

Native American Indians are committed to making Indigenous Peoples Day a national holiday in 2024. Dennis Zotigh U.S. President Joe Biden hands a signing pen to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland as he ...

For more than 150 years, spurred by federal assimilation policies beginning in the early 19th century, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were sent to boarding schools across the ...

A member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada, Ned Blackhawk is a professor of history and American Studies at Yale University and the author of Violence over the Land: Indians ...

Last week, the U.S. Department of the Interior released a more than 100-page report on the federal Indigenous boarding schools designed to assimilate Native Americans in the late 19th and the early ...

American Genocide: The Crimes of Native American Boarding Schools spotlights the atrocities Indigenous children endured for decades at these schools — and how survivors are trying to heal It's a ...

Opinion. America will celebrate its 250th anniversary of declaring independence from England next Independence Day, July 4, 2026. President Donald Trump wants the celebration to go well. He and his ...