On the dry, shimmering plateaus that stretch around Okanagan Lake, a different story of North America is written in bitterroot petals, salmon bones, and rock markings that are older than many European cities. For the Syilx Okanagan people, this landscape is not a backdrop but a living relative, encoded with teachings that Western science ...
Across North America, the story of human survival, innovation, and identity has been shaped in profound ways by the continent’s Indigenous nations. Yet in classrooms, headlines, and even museums, only fragments of that story usually surface. Today, archaeologists, geneticists, linguists, and tribal knowledge-keepers are piecing together a richer picture that challenges old myths and ...
They live in shadows cast by satellite constellations, hunting with bows beneath skies streaked by jet contrails, and yet they know almost nothing of the world that watches them. Scattered across dense forests, remote islands, and river labyrinths, uncontacted tribes represent some of the last living windows into lifeways that resemble those of our ...
