While many people focus on shopping deals the day after Thanksgiving, Native leaders hoped Americans also used the day to honor the country's first peoples. The Friday after Thanksgiving is not only ...

These are some of the most interesting and shocking facts about Native Americans—many you might not have learned about in ...

Asked to list stereotypes they had heard about themselves or other Native Americans, more than 200 middle school-age citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized nation ...

Native American Heritage Month became federally recognized in 1990 and has profound significance. It provides an opportunity to educate the public about the diverse tribal nations, acknowledge ...

American students are often first taught about Native Americans through the frame of European settlers, that native people were simply here when they arrived. But UNC-Chapel Hill history professor ...

While many Americans spend May 5 celebrating Cinco de Mayo, a day that commemorates the Mexican army’s unexpected victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, Native Americans ...

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 ...

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May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, which recognizes Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the ...

Native communities face higher rates of diabetes compared to other groups. To combat this, some Native Americans are moving ...