An interactive website is teaching users about the Indigenous people that lived in parts of North America, South America ... has an interactive, global map that shows Indigenous territories ...

Editor’s note, November 19, 2024: Due to concerns over the accuracy of a map identifying the homelands of Indigenous communities in North America, we have decided to retract this article.

A new genetic study has traced prehistoric human migration from Asia to North and South America. The findings are helping underrepresented Indigenous groups understand their ancestral origins.The ...

Over the past several decades, studies have assessed the massive population decline of people indigenous to North America following ... Looking at their maps and data, the researchers found ...

Related: What you can see in tonight's night sky [maps] Indigenous interpretations of the night sky in North America are not only hugely varied across the region, but these oral traditions have ...

revealing more than 100 sacred mounds built by Native Americans thousands of years ago. These ceremonial and burial mounds are one of the densest collections still existing in North America.

In the 16th century, Spanish colonists brought horses from Europe, reintroducing them into the deserts and grasslands of western North America. Some Native peoples quickly became master horsemen, ...