This year marks 100 years since the Indian Citizenship Act was signed into law after a Cherokee woman blazed a trail to Washington, D.C., to change the lives of American Indians across the country. It ...

Three Native women—a president, a professor, and a student—are sharing their personal journeys in higher education in a new ...

In 1992, Wilma Mankiller gave the commencement address at Flagstaff’s Northern Arizona University. Several years earlier, Mankiller had become the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, ...

The sequel to the bestselling "Blood Sisters" focuses on stolen skeletal remains uncovered in Narragansett and a missing ...

TULSA, Okla. — The Inter-Tribal Council of Five Tribes voted unanimously in support of Sara Hill's nomination to serve as a federal judge. President Joe Biden announced her nomination on Oct. 18, ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Cherokee Nation announced 10 women-owned Cherokee companies recently received investments to help businesses grow. Cherokee Nation, in a partnership with The University of Tulsa (TU ...

SNAP is often more accessible than commodities for Native people, especially those in urban areas.

Ada Deer, an esteemed Native American leader from Wisconsin and the first woman to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs, has died at age 88. Deer passed away Tuesday evening from natural causes, her ...