Civil rights, political upheaval and the uncertain future are on the minds of Indigenous citizens as they prepare for the annual traditional powwow set for Saturday at Clark College.

But the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is home to one of the largest collections of a Native American art form that is hardly known at all: the quilt. Eighty-eight ...

The second is exposure to other languages, and the colonists came into contact with Native American languages, mariners’ Indian English pidgin and other settlers, who spoke Dutch, Swedish ...