In March, just as an exhibition of work by Native American artists was coming together at the Fruitlands Museum, questions cropped up about the ancestry of the show’s co-curator. A debate about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 23—A common misunderstanding for those who use a DNA test to search for ancestors and find an American Indian marker is that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Kansas associate professor Kent Blansett’s contributions to the Native American community aren’t in question.

Back in 1973, activist Sacheen Littlefeather famously appeared at the Academy Awards on behalf of Marlon Brando to advocate for the rights of Native Americans. It turns out, Littlefeather was not ...

When Adrienne Keene saw Professor Elizabeth Hoover on a list of alleged “pretendians” — people falsely claiming Native American ancestry — she reached out in February 2021, offering to defend her ...

I had never heard the term “pretendian” until The Star’s story about three KU professors who have come under fire for claiming Native American ancestry. There was a time when I was a pretendian, even ...

Differences in the percentage of Native American ancestry in Latin American people are linked with the chances of them developing severe liver failure and associated high risk of short-term mortality, ...

An author who identifies as Native American has been called out by a research group who claim she has “no genealogical connection” to any indigenous tribe. Seattle-based Colby Wilkens, 31, claims she ...

The dilemma arose just a few days before the book was set to go to press. Two contributing authors confronted their editor, Larry Gross, an associate professor of race and ethnic studies at University ...