Native people inhabited the land that would become the United States long before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But it wasn’t until 1924, when Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, ...

Movies are the ultimate representation of what Native Americans do best: storytelling. From stories that span modern Native life to history's reverberating impact on the U.S. trust and treaty ...

Diane Orson is a special correspondent with Connecticut Public. She is a longtime reporter and contributor to National Public Radio. Her stories have been heard on Morning Edition, All Things ...

Long before colonial settlers upended native life on the Americas, Africa, Australasia, and Polynesia, Indigenous communities stewarded the coastlines with reverence and respect for the sea and all of ...

It’s 1910. A young girl stands on a road, with trees and buildings behind her. She’s wearing a formal dress with dozens of elk teeth sewn into the fabric. Her expression is light. She closes her eyes ...

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, an artist and curator who blazed a path for Native Americans in the contemporary art world, deftly exploring themes of Indigenous identity, ecological destruction and ...