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BYU law professor honors ancestors and advocates for tribal rights
With 574 tribes, countless treaties and evolving court decisions, Native American law can be a complex maze. BYU law ...
Smithsonian Magazine3d
Massive Fields Where Native American Farmers Grew Corn, Beans and Squash 1,000 Years Ago Discovered in Michigan
The ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin built earthen mounds to grow crops. The site could be the largest ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN3d
Archaeologists Discover Massive 1,000-Year-Old Native American Fields That Rewrite the Story of Early Indigenous Agriculture
Along a forested bend of the Menominee River in northern Michigan, archaeologists have unearthed an ancient agricultural ...
Archaeology3d
Lidar Survey Reveals Intensive Farming by Ancestral Native Americans
A new lidar survey of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula revealed evidence of extensive farming by Native Americans that has stunned ...
USA Today6d
Uncovering a painful past for African Americans, one headstone at a time
I saw that it was a nationwide problem.” Ten years later, Arnold started the National Burial Database of Enslaved Americans, an effort to locate burial grounds of slaves throughout the country.