NMAI copy 39088015036767 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Cultures Collide begins its story with a mistake; but the mistake was made by Christopher Columbus. When Columbus ...

In the spring of 1852, U.S. Army Lt. John W. Gunnison, then working on a survey of the Great Lakes, wrote a letter to his Mormon friend, Albert Carrington in Salt Lake City. Among other things, ...

In family lore, the story told about Yolanda Leyva’s Indigenous great-grandmother Canuta depicted a tale of young romance: Sometime during the 1850s, the Rarámuri girl had been taken in as an infant ...

The broad term “Native American” is typically used to describe the Indigenous people who inhabited the land now known as the U.S. for thousands of years before European colonization. The origins of ...

Before European colonization, North America was home to hundreds of distinct Native American tribes, each with unique cultures, languages, and traditions. Sadly, many of these tribes no longer exist ...