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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prior to the arrival of the first European settlers early in the 17th Century, an estimated 50 million Native Americans tilled the land in the area that became the United States, gathered food in the ...