Tlingit elder Cyril George's photo collection, donated to SHI in August 2020, spans over 70 years of life in southeast Alaska ...

American Indian: Two labels we didn’t choose. We might have been called something else. Columbus wrote on October 11, 1492, of encountering handsome people who “are of the color of the ...

Nakani is a word that comes from the Tlingit language. Nakani is defined as a person, or entity, which serves as a connector and/ or go between for different people, places, and cultures.

BILLINGS — This summer marks the bicentennial of the 1825 treaty that established a relationship of friendship and protection between the Crow Tribe and the U.S. government. To honor this ...

For some teams and schools, the dispute has triggered change. The former Cleveland Indians, Washington Redskins and St. John's University Redmen, for example, are now the Guardians, Commanders and ...

Federal water managers released a final environmental review in April that clears the way for upper Columbia River tribes to reintroduce salmon above Washington’s unpassable Grand Coulee Dam.

The exercise will involve about 100 people, he said ... and local governments including the Tlingit and Haida Central Council. Some members of the National Guard from other states will also ...

“It was built at the request of the Tlingit people here in Juneau.” According to Gibson, the story begins with Elders having dreams of an “elderly, short, bearded man, who they described as having big ...

DEL NORTE COUNTY, Calif. — The Yurok Tribe is set to begin construction on a $7.9 million Yurok Youth Center adjacent to the Weitchpec Tribal Office. According to Yurok Tribal leaders ...

More than 47,000 acres of land along Northern California’s Klamath River was recently returned to the Yurok Tribe in the state’s largest land back deal to date. The 73 square miles of ...

CHOCTAW, Miss. (AP) — It’s a small part in a big movie, but for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, their scene in “Sinners” is a huge deal. The horror movie blockbuster, starring ...

Positive developments included a new state task force on missing and murdered Indigenous people and a co-stewardship agreement between Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the USDA. North Dakota tribal ...