Scythian archers dipped their arrowheads into cadavers, hoping to give their enemies tetanus. In 1346, Mongol warriors laying siege to a Genoese trading outpost in Crimea catapulted the bodies of ...

The threat of an unfamiliar virus devastating Native American communities is as old as colonialism itself. When European empires sailed to North American shores in the 15th century, settlers arrived ...

This year it’s COVID-19. But years ago, particularly among Native Americans, the feared disease was smallpox. Bernie Webb, formerly of Carrington, N.D., and now of Gettysburg, S.D., sent a report ...

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