Author and professor Ned Blackhawk on the essential history of America’s Indigenous peoples. For generations, American history overlooked the role Native communities have played in shaping the nation.

Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies Ned Blackhawk’s (Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone) fourth book, “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples And The Unmaking of U.S. History, ...

Many Americans know more about the violence inflicted upon Native American peoples in the United States than they do about Native survival and influence in the nation’s development, says Yale ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — April's severe storms knocked over the Chief Black Hawk statue that stood on 11th Street in Rock Island for 62 years. Now, the local Native American community is using it as a ...

It's Native American Heritage Day. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Ned Blackhawk, a professor of History and American Studies at Yale, about the history of the day and what it means to observe it. The ...

Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, where he is the faculty coordinator for the Yale Group for the Study of Native America ...

Indigenous perspectives have often been excluded from U.S. historical narratives. A Yale University professor hopes to spotlight the importance of those perspectives in a new book. Ned Blackhawk is a ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — Two years after severe storms toppled over a Rock Island statue, a group continues to fight to restore it. On April 4, 2023, the same day an EF-2 tornado was recorded in Colona, a ...

The Powhatan Coast Guard Invitational, also known as the Blackhawk Invitational, has been an entertaining precursor to the Class 4, Region B Championship in the past few years, with Powhatan High ...

The Supreme Court has decided to uphold key provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act, giving preference for adoption of Native American children to their tribes and families. The law was passed 45 ...

The exotic cultural terrain of New Orleans is enriched by the Spiritual churches. Combining elements from Roman Catholicism, Afro-Caribbean rituals, and down-home black religion, some one hundred of ...