The wrenching transfer of power from hundreds of Indigenous cultures is fundamental to U.S. history. Along the way are ...

The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country ...

Every year, Tamara St. John, an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation of South Dakota and House-Chair of the State-Tribal Relations Committee in the South ...

Depending upon the narrative, American Indians were either noble creatures who were victims of a genocide by rapacious ...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a minimally-edited transcript that originates from a program that uses AI. Anisa Khalifa: About a decade ago, historian, Kathleen Duval, set out on a mission to write a book that ...

As a Native American photographer, the late Dugan Aguilar loved nothing more than to show Native American faces. “I see beauty in people,” he once said. And for Aguilar, who devoted more than 40 years ...

For many, this coexistence of American patriotism and Indigenous pride may seem contradictory Naomi Skiles Members of the Native American Women Warriors, the nation’s first all-women Native American ...

SALT LAKE CITY — As Utah lawmakers weigh legislation to maintain the task force investigating the disproportionately high number of missing and murdered Indigenous people, a coalition of Native ...

A group of American Indian leaders in Colorado began to organize three years ago to study the history of Native Americans in our state. Their work is called the Truth, Restoration and Education ...

Asked to list stereotypes they had heard about themselves or other Native Americans, more than 200 middle school-age citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized nation ...

Jonnell Wieder earned too much money at her job to keep her Medicaid coverage when the COVID-19 public health emergency ended in 2023 and states resumed checking whether people were eligible for the ...

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