In Mexico, too, indigenous consciousness appears to be gaining momentum, nearly a decade after the Zapatista uprising that first brought worldwide attention to the plight of Mexico’s native peoples.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes that Native people are the first inhabitants of the Americas, including the lands that later became the United States of America. And it urges Americans to ...

Monday is becoming increasingly known as Indigenous Peoples' Day, a commemoration of Native American history and culture.. While the second Monday in October has historically been celebrated as ...

Native Land Digital, a Canadian nonprofit, offers resources for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to learn more about the land and its history. It hopes its map will be just a part of that journey.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day — a holiday that came about as an alternative to Columbus Day — is a chance to reflect on how the US has treated Indigenous people and fight for a better future.

Reséndez, a professor of history at the University of California, Davis, estimates between 2.5 million and 5 million Indigenous people were enslaved from 1491 to 1900.

Pope Francis apologises for Catholic crimes against indigenous peoples during the colonisation of the Americas 'Grave sins were committed against the native peoples of America in the name of God' ...

Indigenous Peoples’ Day advocates say the recognition helps correct a “whitewashed” American history that has glorified Europeans, such as Columbus, who have committed violence against Indigenous ...

The "Great Dying" of Indigenous peoples when Europeans began to colonize America at the end of the 15th century impacted climate change prior to the Industrial Revolution, a study from the ...

Because the invasion of the Americas changed everything on the planet. There was a death rate of more than 90 percent of the people (labeled “depopulation” in the scientific report). At that time, the ...

Centuries-old horse skeletons from the American Southwest are helping rewrite a colonial myth: When the Spanish colonized the region in the 17th century, they didn't introduce horses to Indigenous ...