For generations, Native Americans prized dentalium or tusk shells as currency, status symbols and sacred objects. Harvested in the Pacific, they were traded thousands of miles inland, held real value ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Omaha Tribe member Mark Parker, of Macy, Neb ...

FILE - Omaha Tribe member Mark Parker, of Macy, Neb., takes a photo as workers dig for the suspected remains of children who once attended the Genoa Indian Industrial School, July 11, 2023, in ...

Drs Lowe and Waterman are co-editors of the award-winning book, Beyond the Asterisks: Native American Students in Higher Education. The eighth annual UB Haudenosaunee research symposium will take ...

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois K-12 schools may soon be required to pick new mascots to replace those that reference Native American names and imagery. That would include logos, team names and mascots which ...

The good kind of breathtaking experience begins with the first sound. Listen as Native American Isaac Tonasket sings the Spokane tribal chief song. TikTok user Nick Ezell expresses his reaction, which ...

(PRESS RELEASE) NEW YORK — Investment Group Middle West Partners has acquired David Webb Holdings LLC (“David Webb”), a storied American jewelry house known for its bold, colorful designs and master ...

"For the first time, people are hearing the story of the Lumbees," said Robert Williams, a Lumbee Tribe member and Native American legal scholar at the University of Arizona. "Even Congress people ...

For the first time in about a century of “Ramona” pageants, a Native American will be directing the outdoor play that spotlights how Native Americans were treated in California’s early days as a state ...

Since getting the "golden ticket" to Hollywood on the reality singing competition "American Idol," Peoria native Victor Solomon says he is enjoying the opportunity to share his skills and mingle ...

A Helena native was voted into the next round of "American Idol" after singing "Rich Girl" by Daryl Hall and John Oates during his audition, which aired March 30. Trenton Wright, 24 and a Capital ...