Native Americans

Washington University researcher Natalie Mueller hopes to uncover wisdom from Indigenous cultures about growing new crops that are resilient to extreme drought and flooding.

Some existing lessons on Native American history are incomplete and possibly inaccurate, according to many Indigenous people.

Left beneath bridges and inside parking garages, Native American memorials in St. Louis draw advocates' ire.

The Illinois State Museum system “did close to nothing” to repatriate the remains of thousands of Native American burials, a new report found.

An Indigenous-led effort is returning buffalo to tribal lands across the Midwest. Some of the animals come from The Nature Conservancy’s buffalo herds.

Native American tribes and communities are creating formal programs that focus on their traditional foods to not only combat systemic food insecurity, but also connect people to their culture.

Little has changed despite protests and petitions calling for the removal of statues and street names that honor people with ties to slavery, genocide and other atrocities.

Navajo chef Freddie Bitsoie is partnering with St. Louis restaurant Bulrush on two meals celebrating the cuisine of the Hopewell tradition, which flourished in the Midwest before Europeans colonized the continent. He discusses the cuisine with Bulrush chef/owner Rob Connoley.

For several decades, one of the most persistent theories of Cahokia's collapse has blamed self-inflicted ecological disaster. By studying soil samples, Caitlin Rankin’s research debunks that. She discussed it on "St. Louis on the Air."

Carol Diaz-Granados and Jim Duncan have researched rock art — referred to as petroglyphs and pictographs — for more than 30 years in Missouri. They discuss how the petroglyphs and pictographs came to be and what they tell us about the state's indigenous history.