“When we talk about Black Catholics, we had people from the Kingdom of Kongo who were Catholic even before they came here,” says Ansel Augustine, a New Orleans native and the assistant ...

The settlement was established in 1612, a mere five years after the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia and eight years before the ... many chronicles of American colonization.

A dozen Native American tribes in Michigan will collectively get about $26.5 million under a federal grant program aimed at improving affordable housing options on tribal land. The money is part ...

The eponymous bright yellow root is thread-like and was actually used by Native Americans as a thread in ... I’m seeing more flowers than ever before. Beautiful tiny white flowers whose stems ...

The hearing looked at how those cuts could harm the department's programs that benefit Native Americans, including child care, services for domestic violence victims and substance abuse prevention.

Two state-run museums and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are making progress on their repatriation efforts with ...

At a small stream in India’s eastern state of Odisha, Indigenous villagers catch eels and fish for a dinner celebrating an ...

This is part of an occasional series about people, places and things in San Joaquin County as the county its 175th ...