I was happy to see “American Horse” in the booth with ... Indians’ Winter Counts that traveled on horseback in a parfleche bag through the Great Plains, the purpose to document significant ...

New York is discriminating against a school district that refuses to get rid of its Native American chief mascot and could face a Justice Department investigation or risk losing federal funding ...

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) — New York is discriminating against a school district that refuses to get rid of its Native American chief mascot and could face a Justice Department investigation or risk ...

Montana’s five urban Indian clinics — in Missoula, Helena, Butte, Great Falls and Billings — serve more than 30,000 Montanans, and Medicaid plays a crucial role in supporting the services ...

A New York state policy prohibiting the use of Native American school mascots violates civil rights laws, and the state must rescind it or face the possibility of losing federal education funds ...

Earlier administrations investigated whether Native American school mascots were discriminatory. The Trump administration defends them, reflecting a broader shift. By Troy Closson A New York ...

in addition to its duty to carry out the mandates of federal law with respect to American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and villages,” Sharpe said. More than 18,000 children, some as young as ...

Hungarian-American sculptor Peter Toth, at his Florida studio, has created 74 statues of native peoples in North and South America, part of his Trail of the Whispering Giants collection.

Instead, New York officials suggested in a letter to the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday that they could broaden the state ban to include names and mascots derived from other racial or ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York education officials won’t rescind the state’s ban on Native American mascots and team names, despite threats from the Trump administration that it risks losing ...

But Nygren and other Navajo leaders said cuts to federal health programs outside the Indian Health Service are hurting Native Americans. "You're disrupting real lives," Cherilyn Yazzie ...