New research suggests that games of chance developed much earlier—to the tune of 6,000 years—than originally thought.

The Mardi Gras Indians, or Black Masking Indians, have been around since the 1800s. Members spend months painstakingly ...

Long before ancient civilizations in the Old World, Native American hunter-gatherers were already playing games of chance using carefully crafted bone dice more than 12,000 years ago. New research ...

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Sometime around 1860, Spaniards attacked a Navajo settlement in New Mexico and captured a woman named Ated-bah-Hohzoni, meaning “happy girl.” As she hid behind a cliff with her one-year-old daughter, ...

A Paiute man had a vision: A ritual dance would reunite his people with their dead. The Ghost Dance swept across other North American tribes, until fear and violence brought it to a tragic end. HEARD ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Native American memorial commemorating the Lakota and Cheyenne warriors who fought Custer and the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn. (Getty Images) For more than 150 years, the Battle of ...

Across the U.S., you can find food from nearly every culture - except the one that began here. A Native American chef explains how colonization, forced assimilation, and loss of land disrupted ...

When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flooded Minneapolis, Shane Mantz dug his Choctaw Nation citizenship card out of a box on his dresser and slid it into his wallet. Some strangers mistake ...