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Indigenous people lost their land in the United States through treaties made in bad...
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Repatriation is about more than museums taking stolen materials off display.
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Learn more about the meaning of the holiday Indigenous Peoples' Day.
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Highlights from a powwow of the Mi'kmaq.
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Navajo Supreme Court justices questioning counsel during a hearing.
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Distribution of American Southwest peoples and their reservations and lands.
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Distribution of Numic languages and major groups of Great Basin peoples.
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Monks Mound, the largest man-made earthen structure in North America, is part of...
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Paleo-Indian archaeological sites suggesting coastal and inland migration routes.
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Points exhibiting the characteristic channels, or flutes, that extend from mid-blade...
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Stone tool flaked on one surface only, known as a uniface blade, and three end scrapers.
Courtesy, Robert R. Converse, the Archaeological Soceity of Ohio
Ruins of a kiva at Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico.
Bob Harper
Mimbres bowl with black-on-white horned toad design, c. 1050–1150 ce;...
Courtesy of the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; photograph, Arthur Taylor (Neg. No. 99666)
Conical burial mound built by the Adena culture c. 50 bce,...
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Cahokia as it may have appeared c. 1150 ce; painting...
Courtesy of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site; painting by Michael Hampshire
Reconstruction of a Natchez house (foreground) and granary, at the Grand Village...
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Powhatan village of Secoton, colour engraving by Theodor de Bry, 1590, after a watercolour...
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Suspected Protestants being tortured as heretics during the Spanish Inquisition.
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Acoma Pueblo (New Mexico), one of many Pueblo communities occupied by the Spanish...
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Timucua individuals preparing land and sowing seeds, engraving by Theodor de Bry...
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Hernando de Soto committing atrocities against Native people in Florida, engraving...
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Sketch of the Algonquin village of Pomeiock, near present-day Gibbs Creek, North...
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Secoton, a Powhatan Village, watercolour drawing by John White, c. 1587;...
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Map of the initial nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, from History of...
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Reconstructed Wendat longhouse interior, at the Huron/Ouendat Village, Ontario, Canada.
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A map of the North American British colonies after the Proclamation of 1763, which...
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Plains bullboats, in Mih-tutta-Hangkusch, a Mandan Village, one of a series...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Buffalo Hunt, Chase, painting by George Catlin, 1844.
Yale University Art Gallery, Mabel Brady Garvan Collection (1946.9.572)
Map showing the movement of some 100,000 Native Americans forcibly relocated to the...
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First page of William Apess's A Son of the Forest: The Experience of William...
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Front page of Wassaja, April 1916. A periodical established by the Native...
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Euro-American settlers assembling at the border of Oklahoma Territory, preparing...
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Children outside the Indian boarding school at Cantonment, Oklahoma, c. 1909.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Neg. no. LC-USZ62-126134)
Women at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1903.
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American Indian Movement members and U.S. authorities meeting to resolve the 1973...
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Native American population density in the United States and Canada.
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Native dancers at Blackfeet Indian Reservation wearing jingle dance regalia; a shawl...
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The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington,...
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Apache men performing the dance of Gahan, the mountain spirit.
Erin Whittaker/U.S. National Park Service
Devils Tower National Monument, northeastern Wyoming.
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Airboat tours at the reconstructed Seminole encampment at the Billie Swamp Safari,...
Robert Kippenberger, Seminole Tribe of Florida, Billie Swamp Safari, Big Cypress Reservation, Everglades, Florida
A man in dance regalia at the United Tribes Powwow in Bismarck, North Dakota.
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Representatives of indigenous groups attending a United Nations forum on “Indigenous...
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New Zealanders celebrating their country's endorsement of the United Nations Declaration...
Broddi Sigurðarson
Slate bird stone approximately 3.5 inches (8.9 cm) long.
Courtesy, Robert N. Converse, The Archaeological Society of Ohio
Front page of the Cherokee Phoenix, March 6, 1828. The first Native American...
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Indigenous girls practicing sewing at a residential school in Canada's Northwest...
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Indigenous peoples and their supporters marching in Seattle on Indigenous Peoples'...
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(Top) Indigenous communities in Canada and (bottom) reservations in the United States.
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