Oneida Indian Nation Representative Ray Halbritter is one of many Native Americans trying to get his ancestors' remains back.

Native people have always creatively resisted the violence of assimilative schooling. For each historical period of U.S.

Since 1970, they have gathered in Plymouth to focus on the origins of Thanksgiving and to look at the issues that Native ...

An early example of Pilgrim respect for the humanity of Native Americans came from the pen of Edward Winslow. Winslow was one ...

The arrival of each holiday season in the U.S. brings the inevitable retelling, and mistelling, of the “first Thanksgiving.” ...

The Pilgrims celebrated their first harvest in 1621, likely between Sept. 21 and Nov. 11, with 50 Mayflower passengers and 90 Native Americans. This feast, not initially identified as Thanksgiving, ...

For the Pilgrims, what we today know as Thanksgiving was not a feast; rather, it was a spiritual devotion. Thanksgiving was a ...

By Michael Carrafiello Professor of History, Miami University Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of ...