HALIFAX, NC — Marty Richardson descended into the wooded grove, weaving through a crowd of onlookers attending a local America 250 celebration. When Richardson began to speak, the crowd went silent.

McKaylin Peters, a 24-year-old Native American graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, still recalls when she first heard the words “merciless Indian savages.” Sitting in social studies class at ...

A widely accepted theory of Native American origins coming from Japan has been attacked in a new scientific study, which shows that the genetics and skeletal biology 'simply does not match-up.' A ...

The creation of Mount Rushmore is a story of struggle — and to some, desecration. The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota Sioux, the original occupants of the area when white settlers arrived. For ...

Natives have nothing to celebrate as the United States stages another sick-making festival of self-congratulation. Reeducation: The boarding schools Native children were sent to, like this one in Ohio ...

In the early spring of 1942, when the Army Corps of Engineers arrived to begin building the Alaska Highway, Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native ...

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