For generations, Native Americans prized dentalium or tusk shells as currency, status symbols and sacred objects. Harvested in the Pacific, they were traded thousands of miles inland, held real value ...

Drs Lowe and Waterman are co-editors of the award-winning book, Beyond the Asterisks: Native American Students in Higher Education. The eighth annual UB Haudenosaunee research symposium will take ...

The good kind of breathtaking experience begins with the first sound. Listen as Native American Isaac Tonasket sings the Spokane tribal chief song. TikTok user Nick Ezell expresses his reaction, which ...

16TH IN CHICAGO AND NEW ON SEVEN APPS STRUTTING ITS STUFF. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ANNOUNCING THE 17TH ANNUAL APS NATIVE AMERICAN FASHION SHOW IN JUST THREE DAYS AT THE UNM. CONTINUING ED AUDITORIU ...

For years, Native American students in the Rapid City, South Dakota, school district were more likely to be disciplined and less likely to enroll in advanced courses than their White peers.

Michelle Lujan Grisham signed legislation Monday to create a “turquoise alert” for when Native Americans go missing in the state. The effort — which had overwhelming support among lawmakers — responds ...

Furious school-board members in the Long Island town are asking President Trump to help them fight to keep their district’s Native American logo after a judge recently ruled against them in ...

A South Dakota airman accused of killing a Native American woman at Ellsworth Air Force Base has now been charged with first-degree murder and could face the death penalty if convicted.

New Mexico Governor Signs Bill to Provide 'Turquoise Alert' When Native Americans Go Missing SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed legislation Monday to create a ...

Kennedy Jr. says he is committed to improving the Indian Health Service. Native American leaders have doubts. “It’s shameful,” one said. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg Reporting from Washington ...

But for La Jolla native Ian Ward Brininstool (who goes by Ian Ward), that’s exactly what happened during his recent audition in front of the “American Idol” judges. And it resulted in him ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the large-scale Earth Day protests on April 22, 1970 – often credited with spurring significant environmental protection legislation – Native Americans stewarded ...