Native American studies graduate students Michael Grofe and Lisa Woodard examine pine needle and sage baskets, respectively, in Carl Gorman Museum. The students say they are excited by their Native ...

California has taken a historic step in education with the release of the Native American Studies Model Curriculum (NASMC), the first state-funded, TK-12 standards-aligned curriculum dedicated to ...

In its continued effort to transform teaching and learning about American Indians, Native Knowledge 360°, the national education initiative of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, ...

“Roots of Wisdom: Native Knowledge. Shared Science” begins its national tour Feb. 13 at Hale La‘akea Windward Community College’s Library Learning Commons in Kāne‘ohe, Hawaii, where it will be on view ...

Mary Oxendine grew up in Robeson County, NC, among the Lumbee people. As a child of multigenerational farmers, she grew up picking peas and butterbeans, working with her grandmother making sausages, ...

PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Jeanette Kiokun, the tribal clerk for the Qutekcak Native Tribe in Alaska, doesn't immediately recognize the shriveled, brown plant she finds on the shore of the Salish Sea or ...

There is a mushroom whose beige caps grow wild in the mountains of western North Carolina. When plucked, their broken stems well up with milky droplets. To untrained eyes, the edible fungi can be ...