A new book "Living with the Locals" tells the stories of 13 non-Indigenous men, boys and women who were taken in by the First Nations people of the Torres Strait Islands and eastern Australia.

A depiction of indigenous Arawak people from British Guiana, South America, 1852. The arrival of Europeans and enslaved African and the effects of diseases such as smallpox virtually eradicated ...

which is endemic to the Americas—and some genomic data have indicated that Native Americans and Polynesians met before Europeans came on the scene. But a 2017 analysis of ancient remains from five ...

dismissing all accounts of interactions with wolves by Indigenous Americans. The last of these is particularly egregious and seems to represent a form of neocolonial thinking, in which only accounts ...

the study authors calculated that indigenous populations farmed roughly 62 million hectares (239,000 square miles) of land prior to European contact. That number, too, dropped by roughly 90% ...