News

For thousands of years, Native American communities have read the sky, wind, and earth with an attentiveness that’s almost ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
An sculpture depicting a Native American man, woman, and child has been installed on the southwest corner of Cherokee Street and Missouri Avenue in St. Louis, as seen on Monday, Aug. 26, 2024 ...