For advocates, dehumanization of indigenous people is at the root of the issue. More than a decade ago, Sundance, a member of the Muscogee tribe, led a successful effort to change the mascot of a high ...

For more than 10,000 years before Europeans arrived, the Northeast was home to many tribes with organized leadership and ...

Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples make up a big part of the U.S. population. Today, there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes, plus an estimated 400 more that are unrecognized, ...

One of my patients who lives in Diné Bikéyah, the vast Navajo reservation in New Mexico, sleeps in an old Ford pickup truck that often doesn’t start. He has heart failure and relies on oxygen. But ...

WOLF POINT, Mont. – Louise Smith sits at her daughter’s dining room table on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, poring over photographs and newspaper clippings – the everyday scraps that weave a ...

There's a history of forced experimentation on Native communities. Navajo medicine man Timothy Lewis starts each day with a corn pollen seed offering to the creator. He prays for his family and the ...

American Indians and Alaska Natives are a small group relative to the U.S. population. They’re more likely to live in remote parts of the country and can be difficult to reach with traditional survey ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Native American groups fought for years to get this city's National Football League team to change its name. Now, President Donald Trump wants to change it back to a moniker many Native ...

Jonnell Wieder earned too much money at her job to keep her Medicaid coverage when the COVID-19 public health emergency ended in 2023 and states resumed checking whether people were eligible for the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – President Trump’s recent comments insisting that the team bring back “Indians” over the current “Guardians” name sparked a sharp response from a Native American spokesman in Greater ...