the saga of early westward struggles and the kind of ... but pioneers were not the first inhabitants. The Native Americans of the Great Plains had lived off the land for many generations.

DNA supports modern Picuris Pueblo accounts of ancestry going back more than 1,000 years to Chaco Canyon society.

Ancient and present-day genomes from members of the Indigenous American tribe Picuris Pueblo in the US Southwest show genetic continuity with Ancestral Pueblo individuals from the Chaco Canyon ...

is home to one of the largest collections of a Native American art form that is hardly known at all: the quilt. Eighty-eight quilts—stitched by women from the Northern Plains tribes from the ...

His team had previously worked with Native American groups to study ancient human remains, but this was the first time a tribe had sought out his help. “It wasn’t an easy decision,” Picuris ...

Sometimes the clues to past seismic activity are in Native American place ... thing," he noted. His early searches indicate that the Seneca, Cayuga, Natick and Mi'kmaq tribes all have a word ...