In 1937, Phoenix was a small city isolated in the middle of the Arizona desert with a population of less than 50,000 people who, like the rest of the nation, were struggling to recover from the Great ...

One Pennsylvania school district must permit a student club that calls for banning Native American mascots - as a state lawmaker prepares to propose legislation to ban all such mascots and logos in ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Education Department put out a directive to all school districts across the state to not use Native American symbols or mascots are part of their school name, mascots ...

As students put finishing touches Monday on a 70-foot mural featuring Native American clan symbols, Canajoharie Middle School art teacher Michelle Egelston was eyeing other corridors for artistic ...

It’s one of the most well-known public service announcements in American history. A Native American man in buckskin and braids canoes through a polluted river, past smoke-emitting factories and onto a ...

“With the legacy of my grandfather’s own experience weighing heavy on me, that was all it took for my team and I to set out to help Pine Ridge uncover the truth about what happened. And that work ...

A member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada, Ned Blackhawk is a professor of history and American Studies at Yale University and the author of Violence over the Land: Indians ...

The government actively worked to separate Native American families through boarding schools and forced adoptions. Check out the documentaries below to begin your learning journey on this traumatic ...

Author Erika Wurth based her buzzy new novel, "White Horse," on her claimed Chickasaw, Apache and Cherokee heritage -- but now she's been accused of faking that background. Erika T. Wurth/ Instagram ...