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The event, at 225 Laurel Cliff Rd. in Monroe, happens on Monacan Indian Nation land, celebrating Native American communities and heritage through traditional dancing, regalia and festivities.
In Montana, Native Americans have a life expectancy 17 years shorter than that of white Montanans, with significantly higher mortality rates from heart disease, cancer, injuries and diabetes. 26% ...
Trump’s education secretary threatens to pull funding from NY over its Native American mascot ban Indigenous residents on Long Island have called Massapequa’s mascot problematic as it depicts ...
Earlier this month, the Illinois House passed legislation — House Bill 1237 — that would phase out the use of Native American-based mascots and logos in our state’s elementary and high schools.
The exhibit at the Newberry Library has everything from “Star Wars” clips to Polaroid pictures, showing through pop culture how Native stories are still being created. “We’r… ...
Members of the Native American Women Warriors, the nation’s first all-women Native American color guard, stand in a row wearing jingle dresses, each holding a flag.
The sixth annual 414 Day flag unfurling at City Hall is set for 11:15 a.m. on Monday, April 14, and this year the ever-more popular event will spotlight Milwaukee's Native American heritage.
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Democratic Rep. Greg Stanton and a top official with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community are calling on the federal government to return 22 Native American flags ...
In early 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed at least two web pages related to Ira Hayes, a Native American veteran best known for appearing in a photograph of six men raising a flag on ...
Item 1 of 7 Native American activist Leonard Peltier (with a walker), imprisoned for most of his life for the murder of two FBI agents, boards an airplane at Leesburg airport after being released ...
In a historic moment, the Auraria Campus, in conjunction with the University of Colorado Denver, hung five flags from the Sovereign Nations that called Auraria home decades ago to mark Native American ...
Ned Blackhawk, who won the 2023 National Book Award for his groundbreaking reappraisal of U.S. history, discusses some of the best recent books about Native America.