The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are moving forward with their climate plan despite the loss of state support and ...

Indiana keeps secrets better than your aunt who swears she’ll never tell anyone about that thing you did at Thanksgiving.

Critics argue the logo is a step backward and continues the use of harmful stereotypes. One Native American organization, NAGA, expressed support for the new logo design. The team plans to use the ...

First they found metates — ancient grinding stones. A human pinky bone, jawbone and ribs were next. Repeated discoveries of Native American remains and other artifacts on the site of a housing ...

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper published in the journal American Antiquity. And the oldest examples of Native ...

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

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 ...

Solicitor General D. John Sauer seemed to struggle when pressed by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Wednesday on whether Native Americans should be considered birthright citizens. The question ...

Justice Neil Gorsuch pressed the government on its argument that the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause requires a child’s parents to be lawful permanent residents to obtain birthright citizenship.

A dense entry corridor of the Smithsonian’s "Americans" exhibition surrounds visitors with everyday images—from product labels to pop culture—revealing how Native identity is embedded, and often ...

WASHINGTON — In a moment that could take on new significance almost 150 years later, Omaha election official Charles Wilkins on April 5, 1880, refused to register John Elk to vote on the grounds that ...

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