Many Native American communities were consensus democracies that survived for generations because of careful attention to checking and balancing power.

The white pines of New England may have done more than any leaf of tea to kick off the American Revolution.

Better known by the pen name Mourning Dove, Quintasket was a leader and activist who used her position as a public intellectual to fight for Colville rights.

Pocahontas, Matoaka, and Lady Rebecca Rolfe were all the same young woman, who died in 1617, a long way from home.

Happy 50th birthday to novelist, poet, and filmmaker Sherman Alexie. Learn about “one of the major lyric voices of our time" through his work.