Life for Native Americans in the U.S. has been marred by both resilience and heartbreak. From the Great Plains in Texas to the lush Pacific Northwest, these tribes — each with their own traditions, ...

Each summer the Office of Indigenous Relations at the University of Nevada, Reno, invites Native American high school students from across the state interested in attending college to participate in ...

Thanks to the Walt Disney Company, Pocahontas may be the most famous Native American who lived in the 17th century. The ...

LOS ANGELES — Official U.S. records dramatically underestimate mortality and life expectancy disparities for Native Americans, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Journal of the ...

SARANAC LAKE — George J. Bryjak’s book, “A Nation Born, A Homeland Lost: Native Americans And The Revolutionary War Era,” was awarded a Silver Medal in the history category by the Military Writers ...

The contributions of material objects to ethnohistory in Native North America / Michael S. Nassaney and Eric S. Johnson -- Ritual and material culture as keys to cultural continuity: Native American ...

“Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie,” wrote Willa Cather, author of “O Pioneers!,” the saga of early westward struggles and the kind of character it took to ...

The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country as they commune with friends and family Dennis Zotigh Beckham Barehand (Dine ...

In 1928, a forty-one-year-old woman named Adeline Ovitt, née Rivers, drowned in the Schroon River, in upstate New York. The circumstances of her death are largely unknown, but she left behind a ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! When America’s founders were walking the cobblestones of Philadelphia in 1776 while ...

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NEW CURRICULUM. WE’RE INSIDE THE UNIVERSITY UNION BALLROOM, WHERE PEOPLE ARE GATHERED THIS MORNING IN CELEBRATION OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN COLLEGE AND ITS GRAND OPENING THAT IS ...