Monday is becoming increasingly known as Indigenous Peoples' Day, a commemoration of Native American history and culture.

Indigenous people are the stewards of fully 4% of the land area of the United States and represent some 700 distinct communities possessing detailed knowledge of the biota of their homelands. Native ...

Land acknowledgments honor the contributions, histories and place-based knowledge of Indigenous peoples with historic and contemporary ties to lands across what is today known as the United States ...

The comedian Louis C.K. has a bit about the word Jew being an unusual word—it can be both the perfectly correct term for a ...

While this opened up economic and political opportunities for European powers, the colonization of the New World led to the exploitation of its indigenous peoples, often violently and eventually ...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Hundreds of people from across the United States and abroad are in the city to celebrate ...

An exhibit at the Allen County Museum explores the sovereignty of Native Americans in the region. The traveling exhibit will ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally ...

Later Jan. 19, in a warmer setting, the Navajo Nation Washington Office hosted an inauguration reception to welcome President Donald J. Trump and the 119th Congress. For three hours, Indigenous ...

DuVal is a professor of history at the University ... and expansion of the United States. But they’ve begun to sound more like rote obligations, and Indigenous scholars tell me there can be ...

The group contends the Ainu, who mainly inhabit Hokkaido, are not an indigenous people, unlike the Aborigines in Australia and Native Americans in the United States. It said the Jomon people ...