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.

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 ...

Google Maps users in ... suggested renaming North America "América Mexicana," which translates to "Mexican America." Denali's name comes from the Koyukon Indigenous residents of Alaska who ...

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.

Spanish explorers may have brought the first peach pits to North America, but Indigenous communities helped the ubiquitous summer fruit really take root, according to a study led by a researcher at ...