Tag: Native Americans
Native people did not use fire to shape New England’s landscape
Wyatt Oswald, Emerson College; David R. Foster, Harvard University, and Elizabeth Chilton, Binghamton University, State University of New York
An interpretive sign stands at the...
Why more places are abandoning Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous...
Malinda Maynor Lowery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Increasingly, Columbus Day is giving people pause.
More and more towns and cities across the country...
Why more places are abandoning Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous...
Malinda Maynor Lowery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Increasingly, Columbus Day is giving people pause.
More and more towns and cities across the...
This year at the Supreme Court: Gay rights, gun rights and...
Morgan Marietta, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The Supreme Court begins its annual session on Oct. 7 and will take up a series of cases likely...
Rising seas threaten hundreds of Native American heritage sites along Florida’s...
Jayur Mehta, Florida State University and Tara Skipton, Florida State University
Native North Americans first arrived in Florida approximately 14,550 years ago. Evidence for these...
The misguided attacks on ‘This Land Is Your Land’
Will Kaufman, University of Central Lancashire
In recent years, Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” has become a rallying cry for immigrants. And in...
I’ve started acknowledging the people who lived on this land first...
Chip Colwell, University of Colorado Denver
In Toronto, before singing “O Canada,” students and teachers in public schools begin their day by acknowledging that they...
Visiting national parks could change your thinking about patriotism
Jennifer Ladino, University of Idaho
When I took a post-college job as a seasonal ranger at Grand Teton National Park 23 years ago, I noticed...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
