Specialist Moses Brave Heart, a member of the South Dakota Army National Guard's 235th Military Police Company, has recently been granted a religious accommodation to grow his hair long, honoring his ...

The number of people identifying as Native Americans in the U.S. nearly doubled between 2010 and 2020, according to the U.S. Census. The number of people in the United States who claim Native identity ...

Growing up in Iowa as an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, University of Iowa professor Carrie Schuettpelz has spent her life navigating what it truly means to be Native American.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the early 1990s, Justin Pourier was a maintenance man at Red Cloud Indian School, ...

In her Rhode Island kitchen, Deborah Spears Moorehead pores over a collection of Census records scattered across her table. The Native American painter, who was recently an artist-in-residence at ...

People have been pretending to be Native American for decades. While talking about ethnic fraud is tricky, one Native scholar says it’s necessary. Dina Gilio-Whitaker knows that it’s complicated to ...

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz explains systematic challenges Native Americans face. Author Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz dives into the complexities of indigenous identity and the challenges of Tribal ...

SRINGFEILD, Ill. (CNI) - Amid the annual bustle at the Illinois Capitol during the legislative session’s midpoint, a sea of color and singing filled the rotunda on a sunny March day. Attendees of the ...

Building a library collection: fifty years of Native American athletes, sports, and games on film / Daisy V. Dominguez -- Asserting Native American agency in an assimilationist institution / Stacy ...

For many, this coexistence of American patriotism and Indigenous pride may seem contradictory Naomi Skiles Members of the Native American Women Warriors, the nation’s first all-women Native American ...

The number of people in the United States who claim Native identity has exploded — increasing 85% in 10 years — though the number of people formally enrolled in Native American tribes has not. Carrie ...