A study of the disparities of breast cancer treatments among Indigenous women stresses the need for inclusion of traditional healers in their care.

New research examines the molecular workings of plants that Californian Native Americans have long used to treat pain and diarrhea.

A new paper rebuts a recent study claiming to find evidence of cannibalism on Caribbean island around 800 CE. It's a harmful myth, they say.

A trove of more than 80 metal objects in Mississippi appear to be from Hernando de Soto's expedition there. The Chickasaws gave them new purpose.

Natural gas pipeline density is higher overall in socially vulnerable US counties, putting residents at greater risk for public health and safety issues.

Indigenous health behaviors and activities can ease the effects of stress, trauma, and racism on Native Americans' cardiometabolic health, research finds.

Whatever ultimately caused inhabitants to abandon Cahokia, it wasn't because they cut down too many trees, an investigation finds.

A new book argues that the US government waged genocidal war against Native Americans from the 1600s to the 1900s.

Archaeologists have long debated the relationship of psychedelics to rock art. New evidence from Pinwheel Cave in California clarifies the connection.

The presence of bison in tallgrass prairie ecosystems offers clues to the origins of the "lost crops" on which ancient Native Americans relied.