The effort to gain greater legal status for a group of Native Americans in the heart of West Michigan has a renewed attempt ...

Construction is moving rapidly on a controversial migrant detention center deep in the Florida Everglades nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” despite growing concerns from Native American tribes who call ...

Seminole Indians of Florida survived three war and never signed a peace treaty with the U.S. government In the 1850s, soldiers held captured Seminoles in what historians call a concentration camp ...

The federal Indian Child Welfare Act was adopted in 1978 after decades in which 25% to 35% of Native American and Alaska Native children and teens were removed from their parents — without ...

GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY — Elisia Manuel and her husband, Tecumseh, were searching for babies to love and raise. They ...

A string of portable generators and dump trucks loaded with fill dirt streamed into the site Thursday, according to activist ...

North America’s Native nations reassert their sovereignty: ‘We are here’ Across the continent, Indigenous peoples are methodically reasserting control over their land, laws, and how they live.

The photographs in this collection were sent to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, by Frederick Johnson between 1927-1931 along with his ethnographic field collections. Creator ...