The Western Shoshone and the Northern Paiute once lived and traveled across large tracts of land in present-day Idaho, Nevada and Oregon. Today their homelands are much smaller. The Duck Valley Indian ...

Indian Land sales were the result of The Dawes Severalty Act in 1887, named for Congressman Henry Dawes of Massachusetts, which was intended to break up tribes and for Indians to blend in with ...

From sacred objects to recreated villages, these Native museums keep traditions alive in ways you've never seen before.

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 ...

FARGO — As a boy, Frank Bennett Fiske watched in awe from a trading store window as a wagon procession with a cavalry escort carried the disfigured body of Sitting Bull to Fort Yates. Fiske had been ...

As President Trump seeks to reshape the Smithsonian, his administration says the National Museum of the American Indian is ...

Rhyia Joyheart, 26, is no stranger to the day-to-day grind of 21st-century life, such as rising rent, high grocery bills, and long hours spent in city traffic. Born on Wyoming’s Wind River Indian ...

Climate change is threatening the Pamunkey Indian Reservation, and now the National Trust for Historic Preservation has named the area as one of the most endangered historic sites in the country.

The Havasupai Falls area of the Grand Canyon frequently suffers from floods, often stranding tourists and forcing the evacuation of Havasupai Tribal members. The most recent flash floods Aug. 22 ...

A small Native American tribe in the western Upper Peninsula is looking to Congress to compensate it for the federal government’s taking of thousands of acres of their reservation land in Baraga ...

The Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes have reignited their long-stalled effort to repatriate more than 100 square miles of federal government property within the Wind River Indian ...