A trail leading from near St. Louis, Missouri to Natchitoches, Louisiana, teaches us about a race that ruled “the new world” ...

FREMONT – More than 400 years ago, an Aztec Indian was walking through Mexican hill country when a beautiful woman surrounded by bright light appeared to him. The woman told the Aztec, named ...

New Jersey was first inhabited by several Native American tribes about 10,000 years ago. ... Aztec dancers performed to a large crowd this past Sunday at the Raritan powwow and festival.

A new analysis of hundreds of obsidian artifacts from the Aztec Empire has revealed the vast trade networks that supplied obsidian, sometimes even from rivals.

The discovery also sheds light on how the Aztec society evolved — introducing more standardized religion and control before the empire fell in 1521 — by showing how obsidian use changed over time.

Historic Native American trails tend to bind together, like a string of freshwater pearls, historic "persistent places" in the Americas. Many of these places were once inhabited by Native ...