Allie Redhorse Young, a Diné activist and cowgirl at heart, is the founder of Protect the Sacred, which educates and empowers ...

In 1494, the Treaty of Tordesillas infamously divided much of the world beyond Europe into two halves: one for the Spanish ...

Claims about Columbus being Sephardic have bubbled up for decades. Early in the 20th century, some immigrant groups hoped ...

The Spanish brought peaches to the U.S., but Indigenous peoples spread the fruit across the eastern half of the U.S.

For renowned historian Jorge Traslosheros, the so-called “black legend” of the Spanish conquest of lands in the Americas ...

The recent news out of Texas involving the temporary reclassification of a 2023 Indigenous history book for young readers by ...

Hundreds of Indigenous people were marching Wednesday in Brazil’s capital, urging Congress to drop a proposed constitutional ...

After two weeks of negotiations, delegates agreed at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary ...

Years in the making, carefully developed and thoughtfully curated, a one-of-a-kind, ground-breaking exhibition — now on view ...

This piece is part of the series A Human Rights Agenda for the Next U.S. Administration, which outlines WOLA’s priorities for ...

By the 1800s, the Day of the Dead markets in Mexico City were also selling clothing, shoes, furniture, tools, home decor, and ...

Indigenous environmental defenders in Ecuador are suffering an increasing number of threats and sometimes deadly attacks amid ...