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The rich history of North America’s Indigenous peoples is often misrepresented through a European perspective. In her book, Indigenous People, historian Kathleen Duvall from the University…

Grain cultivation can produce excess food that can be stored and taxed. Luis Montaña/Marta Montagna/Science Photo Library The practice of grain cultivation likely spurred the formation…

Multiple studies have demonstrated that European colonization of the Americas caused the extinction of most mitochondrial lineages of North American dogs between 1492 and present, and…

Aboriginal people use fire to manage the landscapePenny Tweedy/Getty Images Analysis of sediment cores taken from ancient lakes shows that Australia's indigenous peoples have been using…