I grew up in a little Norwegian fishing community that was absorbed into Seattle proper. Just about every family that wasn’t pure Norwegian liked to boast about having an Indian princess in their ...

Like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), I grew up believing I was part Cherokee. Like her, I was persuaded by the family mythology that my grandfather’s “high cheekbones” were sufficient evidence of our ...

The Cherokee National Historical Society, Inc. will host a Cherokee ancestry one-day workshop 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. March 5. Registration will be at 10 a.m. and the consecutive sessions will begin at ...

On MSNBC’s AM Joy on Sunday, host Joy Reid discussed with her guests both the Tweet by President Donald Trump directed at Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Warren’s own claims of Native American ...

Cherokee citizens are calling on Elizabeth Warren to publicly disavow a family story of indigenous heritage as a way to dissuade others from making false claims they say often romanticize Native ...

Hanging by the stairs in my parents’ home in Texas is a photo of my great-great-great-grandfather, Umphrey Green Smith. He has a white beard that reaches to his collar and is holding his hand ...

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