Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Earlier this month, the Illinois House passed legislation — House Bill 1237 — that would phase out the use of Native American-based mascots and logos in our state ...

SPRINGFIELD — Following a wave of schools and professional sports teams over the last 20 years scaling back usage of Native American-themed names, imagery, mascots and logos, the Democrat-led ...

SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois K-12 schools may soon be required to pick new mascots to replace those that reference Native American names and imagery. That would include logos, team names and mascots ...

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.

Peltier was among a group of Native American men who traded gunfire with FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in June 1975.

Centuries of anti-Native American policies and colonization have upheld inequities between Native residents in Massachusetts and non-Native Americans, according to a new report that researchers ...

The new year and its associations with new beginnings is the perfect time to contemplate Native American naming traditions and what they have to offer our modern society. The Native American ...

The broad term “Native American” is typically used to describe the Indigenous people who inhabited the land now known as the U.S. for thousands of years before European colonization.

NEW YORK -- Ray Halbritter, representative for the Oneida Indian Nation of New York, has to travel over 200 miles to visit one of his ancestors, who is held deep in the collections of the American ...

November is National Native American Heritage Month. Curious City listener Mark Liechty often finds himself wondering what Chicago was like hundreds of years ago, before the city was officially ...

But what exactly is Native American Heritage Month? What does it represent and when did it start? The month is a way to honor the substantial ways the Native American people in the United States ...