A group representing different Native American tribal nations is making a journey across the country. They are raising awareness of issues impacting their communities, both past and present.

1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of ...

Sadly, UC's history is a microcosm of the national history of untold native tribal injustices inflicted by the U.S. government,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

Toe-tapping and clapping, an enthusiastic audience at the Historic Grove Theater, gleefully watched well-trained area residents perform West African, Korean and South Indian dances. Ramya S. Kapadia, ...

Several tribes practiced slavery ... and director of the Oklahoma Indian Territory Museum of Black Creek Freedmen History. She traces her lineage to formerly enslaved people listed on a 1906 U.S.

She traces her lineage to formerly enslaved people listed on a 1906 U.S. census of Native Americans who had been forcibly removed to Oklahoma. Known as the Dawes Rolls, the census created two lists - ...

Yet images and names of Indians are everywhere. Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, “Americans” exhibit, on display in Washington, D.C., until 2022.

Who gets to claim the title of American Indian? That is the question at the center of a fight over potential federal recognition for the indigenous Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. For more than a ...

If history had taken a different turn, the place now known as Oklahoma could have seen an even stronger win for Native American sovereignty. That area was once known as Indian Territory: a land ...

SUMTERVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by ...

Their leader, Henry Berry Lowry, gave an interview while imprisoned in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1889, in which he described his ancestry as a mix of Portuguese and African instead of Indian.

Looking at 2012 exit polls, the authors determined that Native Americans’ cultural ties did not affect their voting behavior. Further: Over 80% of American Indian respondents did not choose the ...