The broad term “Native American” is typically used to describe the Indigenous people who inhabited the land now known as the U.S. for thousands of years before European colonization.

About half of those residents were Native Alaskans, members of indigenous groups who inhabited Alaska before it was colonized ... century of Russian and American colonization prior to World ...

which is endemic to the Americas—and some genomic data have indicated that Native Americans and Polynesians met before Europeans came on the scene. But a 2017 analysis of ancient remains from five ...

Native nations regained federally recognized rights and political power at the same time as the national environmental awakening. In fact, tribal nations exercised environmental sovereignty in ways ...

As sovereign nations, Native Americans have been able to protect ... and studied their environments for millennia before European colonization. Today, Native nations continue to use science ...