Today, however, democracy is facing challenges in part because the pathways to real estate ownership are increasingly out of ...

From the award-winning PBS series American Experience comes ... Yvonne Russo about the experiences of Native populations at the time of European settlers’ arrival in New England 400 years ...

As the British pushed deeper into North America, they ended up giving Indians concessions that colonists would not tolerate.

Think of Native Americans, and there's a good chance you'll think of Thanksgiving. The tale of how European settlers and Native Americans peacefully sat down to share a feast is a compelling one ...

As a whole, Native Americans have faced health disparities since European settlers arrived 500 years ago, beginning with the smallpox epidemic. Historians estimate up to 90% of Native Americans ...

About 300,000 heavily-armed settlers descended to California to hunt for gold. This set the stage for the "violence of genocide," said Benjamin Madley, an Associated Professor of Native American ...

Anglo-American settlers of England, Spain, France, Russia, Sweden and the Netherlands began to change native America during the early 1500s. Spanish explorers looking for bullion (gold and silver ...