NEW YORK – The American Girls are turning 40, but when you look at them, you’d never know it. They are forever 10, schoolgirls with hair bows and a semi-smile that reveals two front teeth. You know ...

The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country as they commune with friends and family Dennis Zotigh Beckham Barehand (Dine ...

MAYETTA, Kan. (AP) — The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, whose ancestors were uprooted by the U.S. from the Great Lakes region in the 1830s, are facing outrage from fellow Native Americans over plans ...

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Despite being the original inhabitants of this land, Native American voters have faced centuries of discrimination pushed by leaders who intentionally block tribal communities from opportunities and ...

In the U.S., there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes and Alaska Native entities, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior. As for Louisiana, the state is home to more ...

It’s a sunny spring morning as Nakai Clearwater Northup stands amid white pine trees, near a river, surveying the land. Looking at his Narragansett homelands in southern Rhode Island, he says hunting ...

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is the only federally recognized tribe operating within Mississippi. Thirteen other federally recognized tribes have historical ties to Mississippi but are now ...

Raven Price-Smith remembers how starved she was to find other Native Americans when she moved to Austin four years ago. The 23-year-old had grown up as the only Native American at her high school in a ...

Communities across Michigan carry traces of the state's Indigenous roots and contemporary cultures — and Native-owned institutions beckon visitors to explore that history. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Lt ...

Communities around the United States celebrate November as Native American Heritage Month, hosting and attending events celebrating tribal history and culture. Although many of the month’s public ...