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 ...
The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country ...
Inside a Native American casino in Wisconsin, cards shuffle atop green felt tables and coins clink into metal trays. The Ho-Chunk Nation has offered gambling since 1982. But the real game is happening ...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- North Carolina's Lumbee Tribe is closer to gaining full federal recognition. Over the years, tribal members have called it a hard-fought battle as other tribes have opposed ...
This past year, the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition interviewed more than 130 Indian boarding ...
A Native American tribe that was displaced by the establishment of Yosemite National Park is getting part of its lands back. The land transfer, from Pacific Forest Trust, is considered a major ...
It’s estimated that around 7 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, a number that’s expected to double by 2060. But researchers have found that some of the highest rates of cognitive impairment ...
June 2 marked one century since then-President Calvin Coolidge signed a law granting American citizenship to Native Americans. Women had secured the right to vote four years earlier under the 19th ...
As I’ve followed the long-running negotiations over the Colorado River the last couple of years, very little progress has been made in transforming the century-old system of managing the river’s ...
An order of Catholic nuns in Wisconsin recently returned land they had purchased in 1966 to the Indigenous tribe that originally settled it. During a ceremony with deep spiritual symbolism, the ...
In the 1850s, miners, settlers and soldiers violently drove them out of the Yosemite area during the Gold Rush. Now, 175 years later, the Southern Sierra Miwuks’ descendants have begun to reclaim some ...
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