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 ...

In addition to curating Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field, Cécile R. Ganteaume is co-curator of the exhibition Americans, on view at the museum on the National Mall, and author of ...

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 ...

FILE - Iron Eyes Cody, the ''Crying Indian'' whose tearful face in 1970s TV commercials became a powerful symbol of the anti-littering campaign, is pictured in this 1986 photo. Keep America Beautiful, ...

Since its debut in 1971, an anti-pollution ad showing a man in Native American attire shed a single tear at the sight of smokestacks and litter taking over a once unblemished landscape has become an ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The broad term “Native American” is typically used to describe the Indigenous people who inhabited the land now known as the U.S. for thousands of years before European colonization. The origins of ...

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 ...

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 ...