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The “littlest canoe carver in the world” carefully sanded a cedar paddle. That’s how Dave Paul described 7-year-old Amelia ...
The eponymous bright yellow root is thread-like and was actually used by Native Americans as a thread in beadwork. Those bright yellow roots are also of special interest to humans. Native ...
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Kathleen DuVal, an author with a passion for Native American history, recently received an esteemed award for her book "Native Nations." DuVal said she was "thrilled and ...
To understand the controversy surrounding Native American mascots, it is important to know the definition of a mascot. Mascot is defined as “a person, animal or object adopted by a group as a symbolic ...
Aminah Nieves pays moving tribute to Cole Brings Plenty in IndieWire Honors speech. She had won the Breakthrough Award at the Hollywood ceremony.
A dozen Native American tribes in Michigan will collectively get about $26.5 million under a federal grant program aimed at improving affordable housing options on tribal land. The money is part ...
But Adam’s killing is also part of an alarming and rarely discussed trend that has made Native Americans more likely than any other racial group to die in encounters with law enforcement.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A new report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights finds that funding levels for Native American tribes are woefully inadequate despite the federal government's ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a formal apology Tuesday for the state’s role in a boarding school that separated Native American students from their families with the goal of ...
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) issued the first apology from a sitting governor to the Seneca Nation for a boarding school’s treatment of Native Americans. Hochul was in Irving, New York, near the ...
They considered the semiprecious mineral to be a medicine stone. Beginning with early prospecting by Native Americans up through the Industrial Revolution, mining in what's known today as ...
Chaos ensues in the trailer for Americana when a bunch of poor white people scramble to filch a “Lakota Indian ghost shirt,” as the only rich character describes it, and sell it for half a ...