The Niskayuna School District is set to change its mascot from the Silver Warriors, following a state ban on Native ...

Although many of the material items like special documents and photographs are irreplaceable, the family says losing their native cultural items hurts the most.

Cherokee rose on carpet and seats in Senate gallery. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder Originally published on georgiarecorder.com, part of the BLOX Digital Content Exchange.

NORMAN, Okla. — Three tribal nations and five Native American students say in a lawsuit that the Trump administration has failed its legal obligations to tribes when it cut jobs at Bureau of ...

By Jennifer Schuessler A sweeping history of Native Americans and a study of the creation of the port of Los Angeles in the 19th century have won this year’s Bancroft Prize, one of the most ...

Self-identification as Native American also flouts the sovereign right of tribes to determine rules for citizenship. The three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, for instance, require members ...

(AP Photo/Mark Vancleave) Native American activist Leonard Peltier sits for a portrait in prison in February 1986. (AP Photo/Cliff Schiappa, File) Leonard Peltier holds a copy of his commutation in ...

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Both are now on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian Sarah Kuta Wayne Martin Belger set out to make indelible photos of a mystical site on the Navajo Nation.

Eventually, she wants to have a book of her paintings using all 85 of the Cherokee symbols — as well as a day planner ... of Tears — in essentially what was a death march for Native Americans who were ...