Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. And traditional Native ...

Three Native Americans, living in different landscapes and nurtured by different tribal cultures, all share the same goal: to ensure that the traditional Indigenous ways of gathering, growing, ...

In the dense forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, archaeologists have made an astounding discovery: ancient farmlands that challenge everything we thought we knew about Native American agriculture.

Prior to the arrival of the first European settlers early in the 17th Century, an estimated 50 million Native Americans tilled the land in the area that became the United States, gathered food in the ...

Many popular snack foods enjoyed today trace their origins back to Native American agriculture, cooking methods, and traditions. Long before modern packaging and mass production, Indigenous peoples ...

Archeologists studying a forested area in northern Michigan say they've uncovered what is likely the largest intact remains of an ancient Native American agricultural site in the eastern half of the ...

For centuries Native Americans intercropped corn, beans and squash because the plants thrived together. A new initiative is measuring health and social benefits from reuniting the “three sisters.” ...