Life for Native Americans in the U.S. has been marred by both resilience and heartbreak. From the Great Plains in Texas to the lush Pacific Northwest, these tribes — each with their own traditions, ...

Unlike in Europe, native rulers had little formal authority; they had to persuade others to follow their ideas.

Ehakala “Hawkey” Cummings helps reclaim a way of life to help Tribes and grasslands in the Northern Great Plains ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Native Americans in Pacific Northwest preserve salmon fishing tradition for future generations 04:59 For the Muckleshoot tribe, ...

The National Museum of Natural History worked with Indigenous experts to spotlight the enduring cultural significance of buffalo in the exhibition “Bison: Standing Strong” Jack Tamisiea During a ...

“Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie,” wrote Willa Cather, author of “O Pioneers!,” the saga of early westward struggles and the kind of character it took to ...

As an Oglala Lakota citizen with Cheyenne ancestry, the idea of celebrating the 150th year of Colorado’s statehood is complicated for Richard Williams. “When we look back on those 150 years, it hasn’t ...

Nora Moore Lloyd (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe), "Birchbark/Wiigwaas," recto (2020), photograph on fabric, two-sided; Collection of the artist (image courtesy the artist) EVANSTON, ILLINOIS — ...

Official U.S. records dramatically underestimate mortality and life expectancy disparities for Native Americans, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Journal of the American ...

One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names. In more cases than one may think, geographic names were derived from a Native American word or ...