From battlefields to ballet stages, these five Native American leaders broke barriers and defied expectations.

Piestewa kept true to her roots and made the ultimate sacrifice for her comrades in battle.

Historian Zonnie Gorman, whose father was one of the original Navajo Code Talker, discusses the unit’s herculean efforts during World War II.

From Chunkey in 600 CE to NASCAR today, America’s been racing wheels for centuries—it all started with the Cahokia people.