The Fort Pitt Museum takes visitors on an exploration of the history and culture of American Indian tribes who once called Western Pennsylvania home with its new exhibition, “Homelands: Native Nations ...

What are the Mardi Gras Indians, how many are there and what is their history? Dear Reader, The Mardi Gras Indians are a fascinating subculture of New Orleans. They are hierarchical, territorial ...

Machine generated contents note: -- INTRODUCTION: John Echohawk, Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund -- Preface -- Map: Indian Reservations and Communities in the United States -- I. A ...

Every November, communities across the United States observe National Native American Heritage Month — a time to reflect, ...

Lillian Karabaic: When students learn about Oregon’s history, the narrative of the land’s Native people often takes a backseat to the stories of the European settlers on the Oregon Trail or the Gold ...

This collection contains all 20 original folios of Thomas Loraine Mckenney and James Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal ...

The chiefs of South Carolina Native American tribes say that for generations they have been striving for society to acknowledge their heritage and historical contributions in the very place their ...

The Colorado River Indian Tribes, along Arizona's western edges, would become the third Indigenous government in North America to grant a river personhood rights. The move is part of a worldwide ...

The latest round of exhumations of Native American students from a cemetery at the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania resulted in the remains of 17 students being repatriated to ...

More than 18,000 children were shipped off to faraway schools in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Nearly 900 known deaths occurred in the 417 federal-run institutions, along with uncounted cases of ...