The social media backlash Thune faced reflects a wider culture war issue over the holiday. Many Native American advocates have voiced support for replacing Columbus Day with Native American Day or ...

Growing up as a kid in Minneapolis, Johnny Crow never saw Native American firefighters manning the trucks responding to emergencies in his Phillips neighborhood south of downtown. Still, it didn’t ...

Asked to list stereotypes they had heard about themselves or other Native Americans, more than 200 middle school-age citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized nation ...

A Native American group working to stop the destruction of a centuries-old religious ritual site has lost a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the transfer and obliteration of the ...

The federal government is selling the land to the multinational Resolution Copper company, which plans to destroy the site as part of a copper mining operation. On Oct. 6, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

The 37th annual Moundville Native American Festival will take place from October 9-11 at the University of Alabama Moundville Archaeological Park. This year's theme is "Year of the Hawk," featuring a ...

Sac State opened Wileety College to support Native students with community ties. The inaugural cohort includes 34 students pursuing degrees with Native studies minors. Wileety aims to boost Native ...

Sacramento State and California tribal leaders have created a place where students seeking a Native American-based education — rooted in culture and community — can bloom and shine bright with the ...

Shasta County Superior Court in Redding and other California courts will close on Friday, Sept. 26 in observance of the California Native American Day state holiday. A sign taped to the door of the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Don Astras still vividly remembers the day a longtime interest was reignited. Several years ago, his friend recommended that they go to the Muskegon Art Museum. Astras, a ...

Kansas is home to four federally recognized Native American tribes with reservations in the northeast part of the state. Many historical tribes were displaced from their homelands in Kansas, primarily ...

Tom Ogaard’s bank has financed everything from fishing boats to grocery stores in Indian Country. Its next project may come in someplace a little more urban. “When I got here, we had 16 people, and ...