As the United States marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Native Americans are a part of the ...

Lancelot Gumbs sits beside a large wooden frame drum. Animal hide is stretched over the rim. Gumbs reflects on the drum’s importance in his life. He’s played since he was about nine years old. Its ...

This MA Native American tribe sat down with Pilgrims at the 'first' Thanksgiving, but it didn't go as the traditional story suggests.

We all learned the story of Thanksgiving as kids. We were taught that the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 and were ...

Before the Mayflower: The Vikings and the French. The Wineland of Leif the Lucky. First Blood: The Death of the Carpenter of St. Malo. The Fight at Fortune: Champlain at Stage Harbor -- The Coming of ...

What made this encounter truly extraordinary was Samoset's command of the English language. He had learned to speak English from fishermen who worked the waters off Monhegan Island in the Gulf of ...

Perhaps the biggest myth about history in our culture is that history remains static, and historical myths tend to be believed by everyone, even if they aren't true. Like any other ...

After landing at Plymouth, Mass., in 1620, a group of English colonists struggled to survive the harsh elements. And as the story goes, the Wampanoag Native Americans helped them, and, in the fall of ...

A statue of a controversial Indigenous figure in U.S. history will not be built on public property after Wampanoag Tribe members spoke against it. An off-Cape historical commission in Lakeville last ...