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According to the origin story of the Tseshaht people, retold by the archaeologist Denis St. Claire, “Kwatyaat was the creator of the world we can see around us. He had a son called Kapkimyis, and in this story Kapkimyis is here with a shaman. Standing here, they cut with a mussel shell knife the thigh of Kapkimyis. The blood was scooped up and blown into. One version says the first woman emerges, the other says the first man...."
national parks

A First Nation, a Fight for Ancestral Lands, and an Unlikely Alliance

The Tseshaht people are working with archaeologists to write a new chapter in a fraught history.
Lorraine Boissoneault May 8, 2025
Bananas are still a staple of Vanuatu residents' diets. These are for sale at a busy market in Port Vila.
landscapes

How Ancient Tooth Plaque Solved the Mystery of the Banana's Trans-Pacific Journey

3,000-year-old microparticles prove the fruit traveled across the ocean with early Pacific Islanders.
Reina Gattuso February 17, 2020
Providing samples of wild boar ham.
Adelaide, Australia

Something Wild

This store offers tastes of Aboriginal Australia, with some contemporary and global twists.
The former ball court and church.
San Martín Huamelúlpam, Mexico

Huamelulpan Archaeological Zone

At this hillside site that was once home to a Mixtec community, you'll find ruins with a view.
A member of the Nez Perce, Brian J. Pinkham, dipnets for Chinook salmon in Idaho in 2001. For the past several years, the tribe's climate change coordinator, Stefanie Krantz, has been conducting a vulnerability assessment and working on a climate adaptation plan.
native americans

Indigenous People Are at the Forefront of Climate Change Planning in North America

“Tribes have local, place-based cultures and their cultural survival depends on the land."
Naveena Sadasivam February 10, 2020
A view from Budj Bim National Park, in southwest Victoria.
Heywood, Australia

Budj Bim Cultural Landscape

The Gunditjmara Aboriginal people of Australia began construction on this vast aquacultural complex 6,600 years ago.
Gunditjmara people started building this elaborate aquaculture system before the construction of Egypt's oldest pyramids.
landscapes

Australian Wildfires Uncovered Hidden Sections of a Huge, Ancient Aquaculture System

The Gunditjmara have been building an eel-farming system at the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape for more than 6,000 years.
Reina Gattuso February 6, 2020
Ruins of the Temple of Mixcoac
Mexico City, Mexico

Mixcoac Archaeological Site

The ruins of the "place of the cloud snake" sit in the middle of an urban environment.
Calgary, Alberta

Little Chief

What happens when a chef with indigenous roots takes over a hotel-restaurant?
Palace of the Governors
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Palace of the Governors

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.
According to Inquisition records, men were often fearful that women would slip magic potions into their morning hot chocolate.
witchcraft

The Chocolate-Brewing Witches of Colonial Latin America

The Inquisition persecuted women who used cacao to entice lovers and spurn enemies.
Reina Gattuso January 27, 2020
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Wanuskewin

Sample cuisine inspired by the Great Plains indigenous people who have been gathering at this sacred Canadian Heritage Park for 6,000 years.
A cultural fire in Martu country, Western Australia.
fire fighters

How Aboriginal Hunting and 'Cool Burns' Prevent Australian Wildfires

The current crisis has pushed the country to consider cultural burning.
Reina Gattuso January 14, 2020
Baker Archaeological Site.
Baker, Nevada

Baker Archaeological Site

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.
A row of stone monoliths, or moai, on Ahu Tongariki in Rapa Nui.
islands

Easter Island's Monoliths Made the Crops Grow

By quarrying rock for the statues, the people of Rapa Nui fertilized the soil.
Reina Gattuso January 8, 2020
Tucson, Arizona

San Xavier Co-op Farm

Run by members of the Tohono O'odham Nation, this community farm nurtures traditional desert cultivars.
Angahuan, Mexico

Troje Murals of Angahuan

Artwork celebrates the local culture in the region around the world’s youngest volcano.
View of pottery exhibits inside the museum.
Camp Verde, Arizona

Verde Valley Archaeology Center

This comprehensive collection features Native American artifacts dating back centuries.