WASHINGTON — Visitors to the Institute for American Indian Studies are able to get a real look at how Algonquins would have lived hundreds of years ago with the newly rebuilt longhouse and thatched ...

"Muh-shay-wah-NUH-toe. Chess-kay-dah-KAY-wak." In his house overlooking the silvery Mattaponi River, Ken Custalow said the words over and over until it drove his wife crazy. Until she yelled from the ...

Jamaica’s name has nothing to do with the Caribbean island country. The avenue, the neighborhood and the bay are instead named for the Jameco Indians, an Algonquian tribe that occupied the center and ...

Four centuries ago, the roots of Thanksgiving first took hold in our American soil. We living today commemorate the solemn dinner, back in the fall of 1621, shared by the Pilgrims of Plymouth, Mass., ...

A small copper earring unearthed during archaeological digs in search of the Native American village linked to the famed Lost Colony was “almost certainly” traded or gifted to the local tribe by Sir ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The ancestral lure of the Hudson Estuary / Tom R. Lake -- Evidence for settlements along the Kinderhook / Ernest R. Rugenstein -- Expressions of ...

Take a drive through Long Island. You might notice village or hamlet names such as Massapequa, Hauppauge and Ronkonkoma, all of which are rooted in Algonquian, the language group of the island’s ...

The 1619 Project is gaining more traction in the media since its unveiling last year in the New York Times magazine. Its premise, “to reframe American history by regarding 1619 as our nation’s birth ...