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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1928, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance published a memoir that caused a sensation in the literary world. It opened with his earliest memory: Barely a year old, he was riding in a moss baby carrier on ...

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 ...

Diane Orson is a special correspondent with Connecticut Public. She is a longtime reporter and contributor to National Public Radio. Her stories have been heard on Morning Edition, All Things ...

A new production by Ballet North Texas is bringing the story of Maria Tallchief to life, honoring the Native American artist whose rise to become America’s first prima ballerina shattered barriers in ...

“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 ...