Note to readers of Native American Antiquity: This article marks a change. This year, the journal will change from weekly to monthly...

After 1630, Puritans began pouring in and setting up colonies around present-day Boston. These new colonists were only barely tolerant...

Originally, the Pilgrims celebrated thanksgiving as days of prayer. But in 1621, in celebration of surviving the winter, they first...

Autumn, 1621, the chief sachem of the Wampanoag tribe, the Massosoit, was interrupted by several of his village’s hunters with news that...

While driving down the road recently, I heard a news flash that purebred buffalo have been genetically cleansed by Colorado State...

This summer my wife and I vacationed in Wyoming and passed a cemetery claiming to have the grave of Sacagawea (pronounced like “Chicago...

Di’wali, “Bowl”, also known in history as “John Bowles,” was born around 1756 in the Cherokee town of Little Hiwasee, located in the...

By the turn of the nineteenth century, the Native American tribes known as the Five Civilized Tribes were living peacefully on their...

Although, there are many who doubt that the Medicine Wheel in Bighorn Mountain, Wyoming is an astronomical calendar, 1200 miles east in...

In previous articles [Medicine Wheels of the Plains Indians and Sacred Geology], I have talked about some of the more popular theories...