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Two of the country’s largest collections of Native American human remains are held by museums in Illinois.  To the director ...
SAN DIEGO — A new Native American-owned business, Native Star, has opened its doors in the historic Yuma Building in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. Ruth-Ann Thorn, a member of the Rincon Tribe of ...
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 ...
State officials remain hopeful in ongoing search as Interior Department reviews Biden-era initiative examining history of U.S. Native American boarding ... s medallion from the Winnebago powwow.
The death of 14-year-old Emily Pike of the San Carlos Apache Nation has rocked the Native American community ... In New Mexico, as prayers were said in the wind at Pike’s candlelight vigil ...
Long before the large-scale Earth Day protests on April 22, 1970 – often credited with spurring significant environmental protection legislation – Native Americans stewarded the environment.
prayer, music, and art. The four powwow stamps showcase original paintings of Native American dancers by Cochiti Pueblo artist Mateo Romero. Romero got his inspiration for the stamps by taking ...
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 ...
"And introducing the world to Native American food." West is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. "The things that I cook and the way that I prepare food is very important because it only ...
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.
One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names. In more cases than one may think, geographic names were derived from a Native American word ...