Sally Brownfield was part of the Squaxin Island Tribe for decades. This spring, the small tribe near Olympia disenrolled her ...

Perseverance, body positivity, winning — the remarkably diverse girls wrestling team at Little Rock Central High School can do it all.

Kent Nerburn cradles in his palm a small turtle carved from clay quarried at Pipestone, a place in southwestern Minnesota sacred to American Indian people. This little guy plays an important role in ...

Both of Thorpe’s parents were mixed race, with Native heritage ... From the Omaha tribe, Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first Native American woman doctor. She lived during the mid-1800s ...

The Rhode Island accent, as we know it, may be headed for extinction. While it’s still a reliable feature of the local ...

As these DNA test stories show, you truly never know what you’ll find in your family tree! It could be a surprising ...

Variety has learned exclusively that Frankie Quiñones, Eddie Spears, Brian Bahe, and Sienna Tso have all been cast in the ...

NBC's comedy pilot set at a Native American community center in Oakland has found its first four cast members.

Native American women who plan to become nurses. “Natives are so underrepresented in nursing, and so having four in our class is such a huge deal,” said Shaneesa Scheckel, one of the four ...

McLemore, who would be 31 today, is one of the thousands of Native American women who go missing or are victims of violence every year, both on reservations and in cities. It is a problem so ...

In the 19th century it was home to Native Americans who had inhabited it for thousands of years. Spanish colonizers dubbed them the Nicoleño. Details of the Lone Woman’s life, historians and ...

While the candidates’ topics ranged from crumbling infrastructure to sports mascots, each agreed that national attention to the issue of violence against Native American women is overdue.