Indigenous

Tales of tradition, erasure, resilience, and dancing.

Decades before the Wampanoag and Pilgrims shared a meal, the powerful Calusa and their Spanish guests celebrated their new alliance. Spoiler alert: It didn't last.

Built by Native Americans, Serpent Mound and other spectacular ancient monuments have endured centuries of abuse and neglect. That's finally changing.

The Digital Florentine Codex’s three languages and thousands of hand-painted illustrations provide a window into culture, war, and daily life.

For millennia, people used dugouts for transport and trade. Now, an ambitious project is preserving the canoes virtually and revealing new details.

The butterfly defends itself using milkweed, just one of several plants packed with heart-stopping toxins that may also be in your medicine cabinet.

The bird is sometimes considered an omen of death, but in Māori tradition, that's just one part of its story.

Sara Calvosa Olson's cookbook shares delicious recipes and stories celebrating the oak's nut.

Lacrosse can trace its origins back centuries to the Native American "Creator's Game."

The Menominee Tribe's tradition of doing "what's best for the forest" has become a global model for sustainability.

Meet the world's largest landowners.

Explore a catastrophic space rock strike, unique flora and fauna, and millennia-old rock art on this famous stretch of desert road.