Mattel has bungled its rollout of a new Barbie doll honoring the late Native American Chief Wilma Mankiller by using a symbol that misspells “Cherokee” as “Chicken.” Mattel 6 ...

Mankiller, whose likeness is on a U.S. quarter issued in 2021, is the second Native American woman honored with a Barbie doll. Famed aviator Bessie Coleman, who was of Black and Cherokee ancestry ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An iconic chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, inspired countless Native American children as a powerful but humble leader who expanded early education and rural ...

Native American imagery is all around us, while the people are often forgotten. For indigenous people, everything from the word “America” to the insulting ways native symbols are used is a ...

It wasn’t until 2020 that the National Gallery of Art made its first acquisition of a painting by a Native American artist: “Target,” a 1992 mixed-media work by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a ...