Participants in the 2019 Ceremonial Song and Dance at the 98th Gallup Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial in New Mexico. (Photo by Joe Sohm/Adobe Stock.) For the first time, tribal data is being included ...

WASHINGTON — A Native American will lead the Department of Homeland Security for the first time in American history. The U.S. Senate confirmed in a 54-45 vote Monday evening that Oklahoma Sen.

When Anthony Tamez first ran for office and won in 2023, he made history as the second Native person to hold an elected office in Illinois, and one of the youngest Native people to hold a position in ...

Lee Enterprises’ Public Service Journalism team has spent more than a year digging into the causes and implications of Native Americans’ disproportionately high rates of fatal encounters with law ...

WARNING: This story contains disturbing details about residential and boarding schools. If you are feeling triggered, here is a resource list for trauma responses from the National Native American ...

Tribes across the U.S. are responding to reports of Indigenous people being racially profiled, stopped, questioned and mistakenly detained by federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants as part ...

The sight of a room full of human cadavers can be off-putting for some, but not for Haley Omeasoo. In fact, Omeasoo’s comfort level and lack of squeamishness convinced her to pursue studies in ...

WASHINGTON – This won’t be an easy conversation: Can tribal nations love mining? Or at least accept mining as a necessary step in the creation of a clean economy? And can governments and international ...

The sunset on one presidential administration ushers in the dawn of another. The unpredictable political storm in the nation’s capital begins to slow in anticipation of a new head of state, and a new ...

It was the last night of February and a 4×4 truck vaulted down the 103-mile winter road to Cat Lake First Nation in northern Ontario, a road made entirely of ice and snow. Only the light of the stars ...

More than 150 people joined hands in a circle at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 8, 2025, to bless the ground where the new Jim Thorpe Center for the Futures of Native Peoples ...

The growth in the American Indian and Alaska Native population in the last decade contributes to the country’s portrait of being much more multi racial and more diverse, according to 2020 Census data ...