In 1928, a forty-one-year-old woman named Adeline Ovitt, née Rivers, drowned in the Schroon River, in upstate New York. The circumstances of her death are largely unknown, but she left behind a ...

For Native American Heritage Month, as part of our “Hidden Histories” series, we bring you the story of John Herrington, a decorated naval officer and trailblazing astronaut. I also flew a flute and a ...

The critical success of the FX series “Reservation Dogs” and the spotlight on performers like Lily Gladstone, an Academy Award nominee for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” have heightened awareness of ...

Mr. NoiseCat is a journalist and, alongside Emily Kassie, a director of the documentary “Sugarcane,” which is nominated for an Academy Award. Four years ago, a ground-penetrating radar study ...

Native people inhabited the land that would become the United States long before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But it wasn’t until 1924, when Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – A film centered around resilience, human potential, and hope is being filmed right now in St. Louis, and Tuesday was the biggest day of filming yet. FOX 2 had the chance to ...

The dilemma arose just a few days before the book was set to go to press. Two contributing authors confronted their editor, Larry Gross, an associate professor of race and ethnic studies at University ...

Aug. 31—A Tahlequah resident launched a short film with Native American roots and ties to Cherokee County Aug. 28. Christopher Coursey is the writer, director, and producer of his first short film, ...

In the 1860s, an armed militia swept into the historic land of the Serrano people in the San Bernardino mountains and went on a killing spree, attempting to slaughter the entire tribe. A tribal leader ...

A 9.5-acre native prairie in Story County will be permanently protected and dedicated as Landers Prairie. The prairie is named after Dr. R.Q. "Jake" Landers, a former Iowa State University professor ...

America's national parks and other scenic landscapes are often celebrated for their beauty and grandeur, but they hold deeper significance as the ancestral homelands of Native tribes. Through guided ...

Teens at the Bend office of Youthline, a peer-to-peer suicide prevention and mental health crisis helpline, answer texts from young people on February 7, 2024. Several texters that day said they weren ...