Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wisconsin's Aztalan State Park is a National Historic Landmark that showcases restored flat-topped mounds built by Native ...

A: I think the English began to encounter Native Americans and West Africans more or less simultaneously in the middle years of the 16th century, but developed rather different stereotypes of these ...

In the spring of 1852, U.S. Army Lt. John W. Gunnison, then working on a survey of the Great Lakes, wrote a letter to his Mormon friend, Albert Carrington in Salt Lake City. Among other things, ...

It’s Columbus Day. (Well, actually Monday is the day off for most people, but October 12 is actually the day Chris first laid eyes on land in the western hemisphere, an island he dubbed San Salvador.) ...

Long before the boats of Christopher Columbus touched the New World, North America was thriving and this was thanks to the many Native American tribes that called different regions of this huge ...