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HistoryMiami museum has remains and funerary artifacts from 132 Tequesta and Calusa tribe individuals. Those tribes are considered extinct, but the Seminole Tribe of Florida has long claimed to be their descendants - now the items are finally in the process of being returned to them under a 1990 federal law.
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Florida gaming regulators refuse to sign off on the sale of Magic City Casino, one of the state’s oldest pari-mutuels, to an Alabama-based Native American tribe.
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In the court Wednesday, lawyers for the state of Texas and for non-Native adoptive parents told the justices that ICWA violates the Constitution by discriminating based on race
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At issue is whether the the Indian Child Welfare Act — aimed at preventing Native American children from being separated from their tribes — is tribal protection or racial classification.
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Mann is a Marine Corps pilot, NASA astronaut and member of the Wailacki tribe of the Round Valley Indian Tribes.
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In 1973, Littlefeather provided one of the most dramatic moments in Oscar history: Offering Brando's regrets for refusing the award because of Hollywood's treatment and portrayal of Native Americans.
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The stabbings took place across 13 locations in the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon in Canada's Saskatchewan province.
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The Biden administration is urging an appeals court to reinstate a deal that gave the Seminole Tribe control of sports betting throughout Florida.
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In 1973, Sacheen Littlefeather spoke on behalf of Marlon Brando at the Oscars about the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films.
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Those households are struggling to stay afloat, according to a new poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and tribal leaders are advocating for a congressional commission to examine the impacts of the federal Native American forced-assimilation policy.
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The Cherokee National History Museum in Tahlequah, Okla. will host a launch event for the new quarter. Mankiller was the first woman to head a major Native American nation in the U.S.