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 ...

It included a circle of Native American drummers performing an honor song to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of four graduating class members, Native American women who plan to become ...

Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share 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 ...

SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois K-12 schools may soon be required to pick new mascots to replace those that reference Native American names and imagery. That would include logos, team names and mascots ...

When River Kerstetter was asked about three years ago to help curate an exhibit at the Newberry Library about Native Americans and pop culture called “Native Pop!,” she said getting involved ...

The U.S. Postal Service will be hosting a first-day-of-issue ceremony for the "powwow" stamps, which are designed to celebrate Native American culture.The stamps are created in honor of powwows ...

As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay ...

Redstar Price is a Crow artist who attended the IAIA in Santa Fe in the 1960s and whose grandmother's parfleche bags informed ... who became the first Native American artist to represent the ...

Indigenous sisters Jamilah and Justice Maldonado spoke out last year about how hurtful they found the portrayals of Native Americans within the Golden-based Westernaires, hoping the longtime ...

Centuries of anti-Native American policies and colonization have upheld inequities between Native residents in Massachusetts and non-Native Americans, according to a new report that researchers ...

The broad term “Native American” is typically used to describe the Indigenous people who inhabited the land now known as the U.S. for thousands of years before European colonization.