The raccoon has long held our fascination, admiration, and even our disdain. Perhaps no other animal has been as associated with the history of the United States as has this one. As society has ...

All over Turtle Island—a common Indigenous name for North America ... the reservations of tribes that possess them are a tiny fraction of what they had in the past. Native peoples are among ...

FARGO — Two Native American tribes have asked ... a lawsuit against the state of North Dakota. Federal Judge Peter Welte ordered state officials to adopt the map, but an appeals court has ...

Revised textbooks on the five Native American tribes that share geography with North Dakota will be ready in time for next school year. For about three decades, the books went without updates due ...

During the North Dakota legislative session, Native lawmakers supported a bill that would have required the Legislature to consult tribes on policies that would affect their communities.

The United States government promised the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation about 1,280 acres of Illinois reservation in an 1829 ...

A Q&A with author Russell Shorto on the early colonial history of New Amsterdam in the lead-up to a confrontation with the ...

President Donald Trump’s move toward federal recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina fulfills ... but it has sparked concern from other Native American tribes about the precedent ...

Ancient ridge fields in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula show how Indigenous Menominee communities practiced large-scale farming.

Archeologists studying a forested area in northern Michigan say they've uncovered what is likely the largest intact remains of an ancient Native American ... across North America," says Gayle ...

Along a forested bend of the Menominee River in northern Michigan, archaeologists have unearthed an ancient agricultural ...