The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country ...
While the boys work with the horses, Dr. John Spence, an elder and consultant to NARA NW, tells them, “You’re getting in tune with another spirit.” (Elyse Wild/Native News Online) While the boys work ...
Hawaiʻi US Senators Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono and Alaska US Senator Lisa Murkowski have introduced legislation intended to increase access to federal grants for native arts and culture.
Earlier this month, a Massachusetts museum finally returned some 150 Native American artifacts to Lakota Sioux peoples. The museum was in possession of these items for more than a century and ...
A new winter solstice Native art market in Billings brought together more than two dozen Indigenous artists, creating a shared space for cultural representation and community.
LEHI — Chauma Kee-Jansen, who heads Lehi-based American Indian Services, thinks Native American culture and history merit more attention in U.S. history books and classes. "Native American culture ...
My interest in Indigenous territorial claims began in my childhood. I grew up during the Native land claims era in Alaska. Throughout the twentieth century, Alaska Native people watched their lands ...
For more than 10,000 years before Europeans arrived, the Northeast was home to many tribes with organized leadership and governance; it was among the most prosperous parts of North America. A ...
The wrenching transfer of power from hundreds of Indigenous cultures is fundamental to U.S. history. Along the way are remarkable truths of Native survival and grit.
Native Americans in Kansas can often face barriers when seeking help for their recovery. A Wichita group is hoping to change that. Two drums sit to the north and south in the Gallery of Nations at the ...
The Washington Redskins were the subject of controversy for years due to their supposedly offensive name. And yet, the controversy was not primarily driven by outrage from Native Americans, but from ...