King said he was told as a child that his father was part Cherokee. A genealogist traced his paternal lineage and found no ...
A century after the Indian Citizenship Act made their ancestors US citizens and acknowledged their right to vote, Indigenous Americans still face barriers to casting their ballots. Senator Jon Tester ...
Of all his childhood memories, one in particular sticks in the mind of Tony Tekaroniake Evans (DistSt'86, focusing on cultural anthropology, biology and geography): In his third-grade class in Georgia ...
A comprehensive global report on uncontacted Indigenous peoples, published Oct. 27 by Survival International, estimates that the world still holds at least 196 uncontacted peoples living in 10 ...
In family lore, the story told about Yolanda Leyva’s Indigenous great-grandmother Canuta depicted a tale of young romance: Sometime during the 1850s, the Rarámuri girl had been taken in as an infant ...
Mainstream media outlets have often overlooked stories of missing and murdered Indigenous people for more than a century. The ...
Native American people will celebrate their centuries-long history of resilience on Monday with ceremonies, dances and speeches. Events across the U.S. come four years after President Joe Biden ...
Monday, Oct. 13, will be a holiday, though who you celebrate will depend on your worldview. Michigan will recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said, while President Donald Trump ...
Smiley has spent her professional career in rural Alaska. Her small team covers a region the size of Oregon, made up of more than 50 villages with no connected road system. KYUK, an Alaska ...