In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare won the Florida lottery and took home a $17 million lump sum. His friends and family remembered ...

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 ...

Since 2007, the Native American Educational and Cultural Center (NAECC) serves as a second home for the Purdue community. The Center is open to all students and committed to nurturing student learning ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The image came to Blackfeet author Stephen Graham Jones before the plot of his most recent ...

A 49-year survivor of incarceration within the United States prison system, Leonard Peltier (Ojibwe/Lakota), 80, is the most iconic Native American elder in Indian Country. Peltier arrived home at the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - In late January, a statue disappeared from the Francois Chouteau and Native American Heritage Monument. Pictures provided by the Kansas City Parks and Recreation ...

I have conducted research for the National Park Service as an employee of the University of New Mexico's School for Architecture and Planning. My research at the University of Idaho has been ...

Director Paige Bethman’s film succeeds as both an inspiring coming-of-age story and impactful history lesson, focusing on an athlete who takes inspiration from his ancestors. Director Paige ...

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (WLS) -- A Chicago-area teenager will be featured on "American Idol" on ABC this Sunday night. Nikki Rodrigues is from the northwest suburbs, and is talking about the thrill of ...

“We lost all of our Native American regalia, our feathers, our fans, our moccasins, and my peace pipe," Charles Walking Child says. "My father-in-law is going to be combing through it to find ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Members of Arizona’s Congressional delegation are calling on the Department of Defense to bring back website articles describing two Native American heroes from Arizona.

Settlers killed the bison to sell their skins, and the U.S. military used the mass slaughter of the buffalo as a way to weaken and undermine the Native American tribes that relied on the animal ...