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The area we call West Virginia has a long and ancient Native American history. Long before the Shawnee, Mingo and Wyandot tribes roamed the mountains and river ...

Buffalo nickels are not only nostalgic coins but also potentially worth much more than five cents to rare coin collectors.

Located in northwestern Tulsa, Okla., the neighborhood was alive with Black political and economic power during the early ...

Since the passing of the National Museum of the American Indian Act in 1989 and the Native American Graves Protection and ...

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to bring it to light.

As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab in a university or museu ...

Humans have utilized plants in medicine for thousands of years. As a matter of fact, the Sumerians were the first to record ...

The border city of 1 million people, along the Rio Grande between Mexico and New Mexico, is just a three-hour drive from that ...

As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab in a university or museum to study the remains of past civilizations, with ...

The crime-solvers of "Clue," the bugs of Cirque du Soleil's "OVO" and the experimental musicians of the Frequency Festival are starring in some of the week's entertainment highlights.

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