Native innovators lead a revolution in music, building, and space exploration. From the surface of Mars to the New York City hip hop scene to the Pine Ridge Reservation, Native traditions are transforming life on Earth and other worlds.

The antecedents of modern Indian culture can be traced back to the Harappan civilization, which flourished between 2300 and 1500 BC in what are now Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Aryan tribes from the Russian steppes invaded the subcontinent in 1000 BC, bringing their language and culture. The resulting synthesis between the Aryan and Indian civilizations brought forth a unique society that included a caste system, which soon became entrenched. This...

Graduates of the police academy enter the field as rookie officers while wrestling with conflicts in their personal and professional lives.

A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.

More than 80,000 refugees have settled in Georgia since the 1980s and 10,000 of them were placed just outside of Atlanta in the small city of Clarkston. As a result, Clarkston’s population went from 97 percent American-born to 53 percent foreign-born. We return to Clarkston to follow unlikely candidates in the city’s 2013 local election, as three Mayoral and City Council candidates are former refugees who will be running for office—and voting—for...

Learn about the history of Native Americans and their diverse cultural practices throughout North America. Despite oppression over the last century, Native American Indian tribes are preserving their culture today in a variety of ways.

The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.00Ned Blackhawk...

Rita Davern’s family has always been proud to say that their great grandparents once owned Pike Island, a beautiful piece of land at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers. When Rita relates what happened to the people who lived there before her family owned the land, some family members react with understanding, others with arguments and anger. Rita’s attempts to understand what happened and why leads her on a journey that requires...

The Kennewick Man hearings resume as eight scientists sue the government to study 9,000-year-old bones that Native American tribes claim as an ancestor.

This revised and updated edition provides answers to the most-asked questions about the Native people of North America with updated insights on topics that have become increasingly relevant over the past decade.