WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama on Thursday told hundreds of Native American youths that they are all precious and sacred and that “each of you was put on this earth for a reason.” “Each of you has ...

I am a direct descendant of family members that were forced as children to attend either a U.S. government-operated or church-run Indian boarding school. They include my mother, all four of my ...

WOLF POINT, Mont. – Louise Smith sits at her daughter’s dining room table on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, poring over photographs and newspaper clippings – the everyday scraps that weave a ...

On June 2, 1924, Congress passed a law which granted citizenship — and the right to vote — to Native Americans. Has the U.S. has kept the promise of voting rights for Indigenous people? On June 2, ...

Every year, Tamara St. John, an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation of South Dakota and House-Chair of the State-Tribal Relations Committee in the South ...

Madalyn J. Mann does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

This article was produced through a partnership between Newsweek and the Osage News, the official independent media of the Osage Nation. The cooperative reporting process aims to shine a light on the ...

Voters in 25 states will have the opportunity to elect or reelect an Indigenous candidate to public office this year. At least 170 Native American, Native Hawaiians, and Native Alaskans are on ballots ...