July 4 is a day many Americans celebrate to honor the country’s independence from Great Britain. For many Native Americans, ...

A trail leading from near St. Louis, Missouri to Natchitoches, Louisiana, teaches us about a race that ruled “the new world” ...

Several sites along the Natchitoches Trace have been labeled as a persistent place, which is to say a place that has been ...

The word “Melungeon” wasn’t commonly used to describe this group until the mid-1990s, and the group is not officially recognized by the U.S. government as a Native American tribe.

Two Native American tribes on Thursday filed what they called the first major lawsuit against the U.S. government’s notorious system of Indian boarding schools, which for decades splintered ...

Native Star, a Native American-owned business, has opened in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter, offering a cultural blend of coffee, fashion, food, and art.

But in the Southwest, the Comanche nation was the dominant tribe of the southern Great Plains. They were known for their ruthless warriors and raids on other tribes and European settlers alike.

Sgt. Maj. Lanny Asepermy is a decorated military veteran and Native American historian. He led efforts to lobby Congress for the Code Talker Recognition Act and was the first — and, so far, only ...

Sgt. Maj. Lanny Asepermy is a decorated veteran and Native American historian who will receive an honorary doctorate from Missouri State University. Asepermy served in the U.S. Army from 1966 to ...

Native American News National monument proposed for North Dakota Badlands, with tribes' support Published: Dec. 10, 2024, 9:08 a.m.

A coalition of conservation groups and Native American tribal citizens on Friday called on President Joe Biden to designate nearly 140,000 acres of rugged, scenic Badlands as North Dakota's first ...

In the decades following, the U.S. government engaged in the systematic removal of Native Americans in Iowa and began transferring ownership of land to American citizens, he said.