Indigenous actress Elaine Miles is most remembered from the 1990s TV show “Northern Exposure,” though more recently, she was as a guest star on an episode of “Last of Us.” But this week, she says she ...

Most people living in the United States are familiar with the terms “Native American,” “American Indian,” and, increasingly, “Indigenous American” or “Indigenous peoples.” But if you’re still ...

National Native American Heritage Month takes place for the month of November. NPR celebrates Indigenous communities, — with stories, podcasts and more. July 30, 2024 • The investigation into abuse ...

For thousands of years, Native Americans have been in the land that’s now known as the United States of America. And yet, their history is still new to most Americans. In fact, the first presidential ...

Last week, the U.S. Department of the Interior released a more than 100-page report on the federal Indigenous boarding schools designed to assimilate Native Americans in the late 19th and the early ...

The 1924 Indian Citizenship Act sought to assimilate Native people into white society. But the legislation, signed by President Calvin Coolidge, fell short Francine Uenuma - History Correspondent ...

Colorado writer Erika Wurth has earned accolades from the New York Times and Good Morning America for her new novel based on her native American heritage — but it’s a past, her detractors say, that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At least 76 Native American children died at Colorado boarding schools designed to strip them of their Indigenous language, culture and heritage, according ...

November is Native American Heritage Month. In Nebraska, colleges and universities are holding art exhibits, but nationwide, ...