Visit Williamsburg recently announced The Great American Birthday Quilt Project in order to celebrate the country’s 250th ...

I will admit that I took quilts for granted in my younger days. Quilts that my family had painstakingly crafted I saw as just a blanket — perfect for making ...

Deep in the frozen forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, archaeologists have uncovered one of the most surprising ...

The ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin built earthen mounds to grow crops. The site could be the largest ...

Along a forested bend of the Menominee River in northern Michigan, archaeologists have unearthed an ancient agricultural system that may upend conventional narratives about precolonial farming in ...

Drone lidar reveals hidden patterns. In May 2023, the team used drone-based lidar, a laser mapping tool, to scan 330 acres of Native American farming. The survey revealed quilt-like patterns of ...

The lidar uncovered sets of parallel ridges at the site that create quilt-like patterns stretching ... Archaeologists uncover massive 1,000-year-old Native American fields in Northern Michigan ...

Archaeologists uncover massive 1000-year-old Native American fields in Northern Michigan ... The lidar uncovered sets of parallel ridges at the site that create quilt-like patterns stretched ...

Some Native American groups (particularly those in leadership) were on board with the Biden administration’s agenda. Young Natives were encouraged to get to the polls “by Skateboard, Bike—Or Horseback ...

In 2024, Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, granting Native Americans voting rights. But the fight to exercise those rights is ongoing.