When Spanish conquistadors first arrived in the Caribbean in 1492, Indigenous islanders welcomed them with gifts. Within a week, Christopher Columbus and his men had received finely woven cotton ...

Monday marks the holiday traditionally known as Columbus Day in honor of Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the Americas, which put the Western Hemisphere on the map for Europeans. However, this day has ...

The interactions between Native Americans and Europeans are more complicated than what some history books suggest. Historic Newton and the Natick Historical Society explore the complexities of Native ...

Native American communities rode, cared for and lived alongside horses nearly a century earlier than European records suggest, a new study has found. The study, published in the journal Science, ...

Colonization, through genocide, land theft, and the imposition of private property, has dispossessed Indigenous and Black peoples of their homelands across the continents for generations. In ...