The Northeast Women’s Healing Circle hopes to rally support Saturday at the Connecticut State Capitol to raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). The healing circle is ...

An archival image from sometime between 1901 and 1903, of a classroom at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a model institution for the U.S. policy of forcibly assimilating Indigenous children.

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) — New York is discriminating against a school district that refuses to get rid of its Native American chief mascot and could face a Justice Department investigation or risk ...

The Eastern Woodlands Hall, in particular, has been a mainstay for New York-area students learning about Native American life in the Northeast. The museum remains committed to supporting the ...

Chief Standing Bear, whose landmark lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under ... of the tribe from their homeland in northeast Nebraska. Standing Bear's son was among ...

"And introducing the world to Native American food." West is a member of ... He is a tribal member of the Osage Nation of northeast Oklahoma. He said he was inspired to open the eatery because ...

With over 55,000 enrolled members, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi. They are also the largest voting demographic in Robeson County ...

A bill that would prohibit schools from using names, logos or mascots associated with Native Americans, including specific tribes, is headed to the Illinois Senate. The proposed legislation, which ...

The Northeast Women’s Healing Circle hopes to rally support Saturday at the Connecticut State Capitol to raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). The healing circle is ...

but not in the Northeast. The cheery mascot also obscures Massapequa’s legacy of violence against Native Americans, which includes the site of a Native American massacre in the 1600s ...