Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Earlier this month, the Illinois House passed legislation — House Bill 1237 — that would phase out the use of Native American-based mascots and logos in our state ...

The U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into the New York Department of Education (NYDOE) Friday over a Long Island high school's mascot. The NYDOE banned Native American ...

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 ...

The Newberry is home to one of the strongest collections of Native American archival materials in the country. The collection was started in 1911 when American business magnate Edward E.

As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay ...

Critics say the “pretendians” take positions from Native Americans, betray their students and potentially commit research fraud. UC has launched a “fact-finding mission” into the issue.

Meanwhile, the Native American Rights Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union recently issued guidance to tribal leaders and communities recommending among other things that people know their ...

Centuries of anti-Native American policies and colonization have upheld inequities between Native residents in Massachusetts and non-Native Americans, according to a new report that researchers ...

The broad term “Native American” is typically used to describe the Indigenous people who inhabited the land now known as the U.S. for thousands of years before European colonization.

Amid the holiday season, Native American Heritage Month will come to a close with Native American Heritage Day on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. "Indigenous peoples have persisted and ...

NEW YORK -- Ray Halbritter, representative for the Oneida Indian Nation of New York, has to travel over 200 miles to visit one of his ancestors, who is held deep in the collections of the American ...