Charles "Chuck" Smith spent much of his life trying to find a balance between two worlds. Born to a mother of German heritage and a father who was a full-blooded Lakota Sioux, the fair-skinned, ...

The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians’ biggest event of the year continues Sunday, with tribes from across the state ...

At the annual Santa Fe Indian Market this weekend, Indigenous artistry melded important histories with futuristic ideas.

Jennifer Jordan is preserving centuries-old Haudenosaunee traditions. And she has no intention of letting them be forgotten or exploited.

America did not begin in 1776. It did not begin with the Pilgrims. Long before European settlement, Native nations had governments, diplomacy, agriculture, trade networks, spiritual traditions, land ...

As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of declaring our independence from England and its king, there has been a torrent of written and visual reflections on our hallowed Declaration of Independence ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Swiftly marching toward westward expansion, the United States in the 1800s brought with it a tidal wave of displacement and cultural suppression for Native Americans. A century ...

This Pew Research Center analysis summarizes key facts about Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) living in the United States. Pew Research Center does demographic studies, opinion polls and ...

Two Native-led exhibits open at the Textile Center in Minneapolis on April 14. "TWO-SPIRIT STORIES" showcases the work of emerging Two-Spirit artists residing in Minnesota (left art by Alicia de la ...

In early 1777, British General John Burgoyne hatched a plan to take over New York’s Hudson River Valley and end the American Revolution by cutting off the colonists’ maritime supply routes. Fort ...

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. The findings, published Thursday in the ...

A new study in American Antiquity presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by Native American hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12,000 ...