It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a ...

So Surreal, co-directed by Diamond and Joanne Robertson, traces the journey of that mask from 1921, when it was seized by the Canadian government along with hundreds of other potlatch objects, from a ...

So Surreal: Behind the Masks explores what happened to Yup’ik and Kwakwaka’wakw ceremonial masks. ... which examined the problematic portrayals of Native Americans in Hollywood westerns, ...

Trump’s education secretary threatens to pull funding from NY over its Native American mascot ban Indigenous residents on Long Island have called Massapequa’s mascot problematic as it depicts ...

Roy Huhndorf ( Yup’ik), who would go on to co-found the Alaska Native Heritage Center, was elected to serve on the initial board of incorporators of Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (CIRI), one of the 12 ...

The exhibit at the Newberry Library has everything from “Star Wars” clips to Polaroid pictures, showing through pop culture how Native stories are still being created. “We’r… ...

Marc-Andre Fleury wore a custom mask for the Minnesota Wild’s Native American Heritage night Friday after being told by the NHL it was not allowed.

When it was made: These masks date to at least the 16th century; the one photographed above dates to 1885. Yup'ik masks vary dramatically in size and shape, anthropologist Dorothy Jean Ray wrote ...

The broad term “Native American” is typically used to describe the Indigenous people who inhabited the land now known as the U.S. for thousands of years before European colonization. The ...