The discovery that people living at the great Ancestral Pueblo site of Chaco Canyon consumed cacao changed our understanding of the history of chocolate by demonstrating that networks moving cacao rea...

Engineered fluids could extract metals from fracked reservoirs, supplying materials for solar cells and electric vehicles

Across five historical case studies, this series examines why opposition to vaccination has persisted despite major advances in medicine and public health. It explores the roles of compulsory vaccinat...

In 1896, Lt. James Moss formed a bicycle corps of 25th Infantry Regiment volunteers for an unprecedented a cross-country cycling experiment.

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Howard G. Buffett has visited Ukraine 25 times since Russia’s full-scale invasion. His foundation has committed more than $1 billion to the country. This morning in New York, he explained why he does ...

Repatriations continue with the remains of four students from Alaska finally headed home after more than 100 years

Traditional knowledge keepers from across the Pacific Northwest came together for two days to explore food sovereignty, culture plants, medicines and politics.

Kids of Silverton Colorado greet tourists with a time-honored rite of passage.

L. Daniel Hawk exposes the belief systems and practices that settlers developed to justify the displacement, destruction, and cultural erasure of Indigenous peoples, beginning in the early American co...

How did the Puritans justify seizing Indigenous land? Historian Dan Richter gives us an answer in a talk moderated by Brad Lopes.

Oil consumption plummets and EV sales soar as analysts say demand may not fully return even if crude price falls

(RNS) — Your teachers deserve your memory and your blessing. A Yom Kippur message.

A workshop for justice and peace in Ukraine.

The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes put three of their own to rest more than 100 years after the children left home and family for the Carlisle boarding school

This autumn we celebrate the anniversary of a timeless masterpiece, published for the first time in 1929.

Standing Rock increased division in North Dakota between Indigenous communities and nearby non-Indigenous communities. Propaganda made it worse.

An untold number of students at Carlisle Indian School disappeared. Tribal nations raise the stakes in search of answers.

(RNS) — If you are looking for a spark, sift through the ashes. And perhaps find some hope as well.

"I don't wish to make light of the threats and dangers that now confront us."

His life as a writer and farmer was informed by a simple, clarifying idea: Forget tomorrow, and work toward what is good today.

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WASHINGTON (RNS) — 'The fact that we still have to fight to maintain and renew voting rights in this country is beyond abysmal and a truly national disgrace,' Martin Luther King III said Friday.

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Congress should create an office of physicians that report to the public on American leaders’ medical fitness for duty.

The gallery continues to expand the space for Indigenous artists in an ongoing process of decolonization that is reframing Canadian arts, exhibiting one of the largest collections of contemporary Inui...

This report is in partnership with PBS Wisconsin. Erica AyisiHere & Now, ICT “I feel strongly that everyone needs to take care of what we have on Earth — that means our water, our land and everyone’s ...

Issues Most Americans Want, All the Solutions the Nation Needs

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The Fort Mojave and Chemehuevi Indian Tribes are joined in the suit by the Native American Land Conservancy and the National Parks Conservation Association

While parasitic Cyclospora infections have reached record-breaking numbers this year, experts have criticized coverage that has created the appearance of "one massive outbreak." The reality is more nu...

Ruling clears path for efforts to gain return of two boys who died at Carlisle boarding school

Ho-Chunk chef promotes healing through traditional diets at Milwaukee Indian Health Center fair