So when she started writing about Native American identity, that's where she turned. CARRIE LOWRY SCHUETTPELZ: And so I started looking at the Census data, and it's hard to miss the fact that the ...

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz explains systematic challenges Native Americans face. Author Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz dives into the complexities of indigenous identity and the challenges of Tribal ...

Government officials reassured tribal education advocates that they recognize tribes’ unique political status. That gives ...

Individuals’ relationships with their own Native identity are complicated in their own ways. Consider the almost 8 million Americans who identified as Native on the 2020 census but are not ...

Tai Leclare and experts explore Native American identity. What’s the deal with “Pretendians”? Tai Leclare and experts dissect what it really means to be Native—whether it’s blood ...

And it was happening amid a backdrop of Native American groups working to secure passage of a bill that would ban what they say is offensive imagery in Illinois school mascots. “Our identity has ...

This preference was not exclusive but allowed the community to prioritize Native American residents, helping to preserve its cultural identity. Today, 1,500 residents from 39 different tribes live ...

Despite desire from Native Americans in Illinois, the ban on Native imagery for mascots in K-12 schools stalled in the Senate ...

There were all these what we could now call memes about the vanishing red man” thanks to federal assimilation policies that would “finish off Native American identity, if not Native American ...

“The Indian Card” begins with a statistical puzzle: In the 2000 U.S. census, 4.1 million people indicated Native American heritage. But in 2020, that figure had swelled to 9.7 million.