Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2017, which granted federal recognition to six Virginia state-recognized Native American tribes via a special act of Congress rather ...

Most people living in the United States are familiar with the terms “Native American,” “American Indian,” and, increasingly, “Indigenous American” or “Indigenous peoples.” ...

Mark Macarro, chairman of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, recollected fellow Native Americans insisting that “Mission Indians” are not like other Indians because they don’t have ...

Why does the new museum’s name employ the term “American Indian,” rather than “Native American”? Though there’s a dry bureaucratic reason for the name choice, neither term is ...

“We’re African American,” Graham, 55, said. “But we’re Native American also ... or Texas to escape skirmishes and raids. Black Indians joined the Union or Confederate armies, and ...

The state of North Carolina recognized the Lumbee as Native Americans in 1885. At the time, they were labeled “Croatan Indians” — one of many names given to them over the centuries because ...

Evans (Cherokee Nation), director of the Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. The exhibition strategically places “Native artists as ...

Many textbooks, popular media, and prepackaged curricula relegate American Indians to the distant past and fail to illustrate the dynamic and diverse cultures of Native America. The National ...

A lawsuit filed in Colorado this week by a North Dakota-based group representing Native Americans argued a law banning American Indian school mascots leads to the erasure of American-Indian ...

Many sports teams using names and mascots invoking Native Americans have been called out for racism. NAGA disagrees. "I have talked personally to the president of the Indians and told him ...

Since its debut in 1971, an anti-pollution ad showing a man in Native American attire shed a single tear at the sight of smokestacks and litter taking over a once unblemished landscape has become ...

“We’re African-American,” Mr. Graham, 55, said. “But we’re Native American also ... or Texas to escape skirmishes and raids. Black Indians joined the Union or Confederate armies ...