U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-6th Dist., has introduced a resolution that would ban Native American mascots from public ...

Many Native Americans are carrying tribal documents proving their U.S. citizenship in case they are stopped or questioned by ...

The crackdown on unauthorized immigrants is resonating deeply among the Dakota and other tribes, as residents confront what ...

Despite overcoming adversity, there are Native American professionals who have excelled in corporate professions. But there are very few Native people who are in the public eye for thriving in ...

Native American storyteller Perry Ground, a Turtle Clan member of the Onondaga Nation, starts his "rethinking" of Thanksgiving with a quiz. Ground, who has been telling stories for 25 years in an ...

The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country as they commune with friends and family Dennis Zotigh Beckham Barehand (Dine ...

Native people inhabited the land that would become the United States long before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But it wasn’t until 1924, when Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, ...

Native American children have attended at least 523 Indigenous boarding schools since the 19th century, including hundreds that were run by the federal government to assimilate children into White ...

Nearly 100,000 remains held despite federal law ordering repatriation. HANOVER, N.H. -- Founded as one of the first schools to educate Native Americans, Dartmouth College is now at the forefront of an ...

Michigan Anishinaabe women April Lindala, Linda Batiste-Cohen and Michelle Reed dress in their tribal apparel in anticipation of the holidays!" Photo courtesy of Michelle Reed For the last few years, ...

Hisle, S.D. — Katherine Goodlow is only 20, but she has experienced enough to know that people around her are dying too young. Goodlow, a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, said she's lost six ...

Native plants have a symbiotic relationship with native wildlife and evolved within local environment. Here, a monarch rests on a blazing star, a native wildflower. Native plant species are better ...