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Native Americans Were Making Dice and Gaming Thousands of Years Before Anyone Else

Tribal casinos in the US may seem a more natural fit, after hearing about new research showing that Native Americans were making dice for gaming thousands of years before anyone el...

Native Americans were gambling with dice 6,000 years earlier than anyone else, study says

Archaeological record suggests hunter gatherers were playing games of chance at the end of the last ice ageNative American hunter gatherers were using dice for gaming and gambling...

Native Americans used dice thousands of years before the Bronze Age

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The traditional six-sided die has been around since the Bronze Age, with the earliest known pieces from approximately 3000 BC uncovered in Mesopotami...

Native Americans Were Gambling 12,000 Years Ago, Study Finds – Ice Age ‘Dice’ Identified

Humans gambled thousands of years earlier than previously believed Ice Age artifacts reveal early Native American games of chance Study reinterprets museum objects as some of the w...

Earliest Known Dice Were Made And Used By Native Americans Over 12,000 Years Ago, Near The End Of The Last Ice Age

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent research suggests that the earliest known dice in human history were created and used by Native American hunter-gatherers on the western Gr...

Native Americans Were Gambling, Exploring Probability Millenia Before Their Old World Counterparts

WHAT MANY PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND ABOUT NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES

NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES WERE NEVER ONE SINGLE CULTURE OR IDENTITYContinue reading on The Haven »

Wabanaki Nations Defend Maine’s Internet Gaming Law

On April 1, 2026, the four Wabanaki Nations — the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, the Mi’kmaq Nation, the Passamaquoddy Tribe, and the Penobscot Nation — represented The post Wab...

Encounters With The Snake People Feared By Native Americans Investigated By Archaeologists

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com -  This story does not spring from myth or legend, but from chilling reality. Across nearly every Native American tribe, the Snake People are known a...

Are Native Americans Citizens By Birthright? Government Lawyer Can’t Say.

File under: Things you don't want to say in front of the Supreme Court.

Native American Group Backed by U.S. Bishops Seeks Court Review of Sacred Site Sale

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12,000-Year-Old Native American Dice Rewrite the History of Gambling

Native Americans were making and using dice more than 12,000 years ago, far earlier than previously thought. These Ice Age tools powered games of chance that hint at early forms of...

12,000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice

New research suggests that dice developed much earlier—to the tune of 6,000 years—than originally thought. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member...

What You Need to Know About Tribal Sovereignty and Birthright Citizenship

Tribal sovereignty has always existed, long before the United States was formed, and Tribal Nations continue to govern their own lands and citizens today. Yet recent legal debates...

12,900-Year-Old Dice Identified Among Native American Artifacts

FORT COLLINS, COLORADO—People living in western North America more than 12,000 years ago played games […] The post 12,900-Year-Old Dice Identified Among Native American Artifacts a...

A vast Indigenous American genome map exposes lost migrations, ancient ancestry and more than a million new variants

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many populations have historically been underrepresented on the...

Data center developers often target tribal lands for rich resources and less oversight

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation's Mound building, which houses the National Council. (Photo by Amanda Rutland, Muscogee Nation, ZUMA)Tech companies seeking sprawling lands for hypersca...

Indian Peaks Band files to protect Tribal water rights

On April 1, 2026, the Indian Peaks Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, represented by the Native American Rights Fund, filed a Notice of Appeal and Petition for Stay with the...

Monday, April 13, 2026 — Tribes confront growing data center development pressure

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma is one of the first tribes to pass a moratorium against the construction of hyperscale data centers. The nearby Muscogee Nation also turned down an...

Thursday, May 14, 2026 – Native American voting rights advocates brace for diminished Native power at the polls

The U.S. Supreme Court has, in the words of the Native American Rights Fund, diluted Native Americans’ “ability to secure good schools, adequate infrastructure, health care access,...

Native American Dice Push Back Gambling Origins 12,000 Years

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that Native Americans were using dice more than 12,000 years ago, significantly pushing back the known origins of gambling and games of chanc...

Bipartisan lawmakers push for ICE training on recognizing tribal IDs following stops of Native Americans

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to undergo training to recognize tribal IDs following reports of Native Americans...

Thursday, May 21, 2026 – Nevada’s mining boom and Winnebago Tribe’s NAGPRA victory

The U.S. government and private mining corporations are ignoring the rights of tribes to free, prior and informed consent when it comes to lithium mining in Nevada, according to a...

Why Do These Painted Indians Have Long Hair?

Why do these Native American Coloosa Indians in this painting have their hair over the front of their shoulders? Here’s the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth! (that...