The peak of summer, the start of school holidays and high season in many places, July is somewhat synonymous with the ...

The 2026 Native Youth Olympics in Anchorage brought together about 400 athletes for traditional Indigenous competitions, producing standout performances and reinforcing cultural bonds. Quentin O’Domin ...

When the 13 colonies in the east began their push toward independence from Britain, Michigan was more than a half-century ...

The research, part of the Indigenous American Genomic Diversity Project, combined newly sequenced genomes with existing databases to analyze a total of 199 contemporary Indigenous individuals from 53 ...

Perhaps if he’d been born a few years earlier, Geronimo would have lived out his life as an Apache chief, adhering to tradition and ensuring the safety of his people. As it happened, one of the most ...

The traditional six-sided die has been around since the Bronze Age, with the earliest known pieces from approximately 3000 BC uncovered in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley. Now, a new study has found ...

“Imagine going before the Supreme Court to attack birthright citizenship and being unable to say Native Americans are American citizens.” So wrote U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D., N.M.) on ...

Archaeologists have long known that the ancient peoples of North America—not unlike us—played a lot of games. Going back millennia, cultures around the world developed myriad ways to keep entertained, ...

Native American dice as old as 13,000 years – Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution, American Museum of Natural History and Wyoming University (SWNS) Tribal casinos in the US may seem a more natural fit ...

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper published in the journal American Antiquity. And the oldest examples of Native ...

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...