It's Native American Heritage Day. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Ned Blackhawk, a professor of History and American Studies at Yale, about the history of the day and what it means to observe it.

They are all innovations that were created by Native Americans thousands of years ago that we still use today. Many Native American contributions to our modern world often go unrecognized ...

Amid the holiday season, Native American Heritage Month will come to a close with Native American Heritage Day on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. "Indigenous peoples have persisted and ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (AP) — A recent study has found that systemic barriers to voting on tribal lands contribute to substantial disparities in Native American turnout, particularly for ...

(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 ...

The decision on Thursday bolsters Indigenous sovereignty by upholding a 1978 law aimed at keeping Native American adoptees within tribes. By Simon Romero and Jan Hoffman Simon Romero has covered ...

BARBERTON, Ohio -- Why hasn’t the fuss over sport teams’ Native American mascots and names gone away, especially since “Chief Wahoo” and the “Indians” of Cleveland baseball and the ...

The Newberry is home to one of the strongest collections of Native American archival materials in the country. The collection was started in 1911 when American business magnate Edward E.