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Mardi Gras Indians: Keepers of the Native Americans’ secret influence on jazz

Native American Heritage Month is a great time to highlight a relatively unknown part of one of the most special cities on the globe: the contribution of Native Americans to the musical universe of ...
The New Yorker

The Hidden History of Native American Enslavement

Sometime around 1860, Spaniards attacked a Navajo settlement in New Mexico and captured a woman named Ated-bah-Hohzoni, meaning “happy girl.” As she hid behind a cliff with her one-year-old daughter, ...
WGBH

The hidden history of Indigenous slavery in New England and beyond

Growing up, Dominique Williams visited her grandmother every weekend. And on each trip, she was greeted by a piece of her past, a name stitched in fabric, filled with centuries of legacy and mystery. ...
IFLScience

Native American Origins Differ From Long-Held Beliefs, Study Found

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
KSHB Kansas City

Smithsonian traveling exhibit in Lawrence tells history of Native American influence on American culture

KSHB 41 reporter Lily O’Shea Becker covers Franklin and Douglas counties in Kansas. Share your story idea with Lily. Haskell Cultural Center and Museum on Haskell Indian Nations University's (Haskell) ...
WUNC

'A story of survival:' UNC professor's book on Native history wins Pulitzer Prize

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 ...
IFLScience

DNA Evidence Uncovers Surprising Origins Of Native Americans

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...