PAISLEY, Ore. - For some 85 years, homesteaders, pot hunters and archaeologists have been digging at Oregon's Paisley Caves, a string of shallow depressions washed out of an ancient lava flow by the waves of a lake that comes and goes with the changing...

A shocking new report details how the average American is exposed to more radiation than being in a nuclear fallout cloud from an atomic bomb blast..

The Little Engine That Could, also known as The Pony Engine, is an American classic children's story. The book promotes the values of optimism and hard work, and some think of the book as a metaphor for the American dream and a story of self-discovery.

With the economy in crisis, right now seems like a good time to rethink the economic fundamentals of American life. The latest issue of Tikkun has three articles questioning some of the basic assumptions inherent in today's economy, trying to move...

These two Atomic Brains go to the lake with theiIr guns, the dog, the beer and of course the new vehicle. They drive out onto the ice. Now, they want to make some kind of a natural landing area to attract ducks - something the decoys will float on.

A 200-acre wooded site west of Tisch Mills guards its secrets well. Maybe that's what its original inhabitants intended.But for historian Bruce Vandervest and several other investigators...

Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for the opportunity to testify before the Senate Banking Committee about the future of Indian Country and the need for emergency assistance for this vital population of our society...

Leave a note for the folks at home or the Warriors in far off lands

The evolution of a new religion, the Ghost Dance, was a reaction to the Indians being forced to submit to government authority and reservation life. In early 1889, a Paiute shaman, Wovoka, (son of the mystic, Tavibo, whose teachings influenced the new...

By August of 1890, the U.S. government was fearful that the Ghost Dance was actually a war dance and, in time, the dancers would turn to rioting. By November, the War Department sent troops to occupy the Lakota camps at Pine Ridge and Rosebud...