The iconography of Mexico's Día de los Muertos has become wildly popular outside Latino communities. But where did the skulls and skeletons come from?

“Trapping was not a ‘business for profit’ among the Dakota but primarily a social exchange,” one scholar writes.

Tsantsas, or shrunken human heads, remind us of how museums have often been founded on a violent trade in indigenous culture.

Why did Victorian-era gravestones include so many images of clasped hands?

In a famous 1910 photograph "In a Piegan Lodge," a small clock appears between two seated Native American men. In a later print, the clock is missing.

In 1993, Navajo elders provided a key piece of information to CDC scientists and climatologists to help combat a deadly mystery disease.

By the time Jamestown, Virginia was settled, St. Augustine, Florida was already 42 years old. The rich history of America's oldest settlement.

This Central American country was a haven for visitors long before it became a major tourist destination.