Life for Native Americans in the U.S. has been marred by both resilience and heartbreak. From the Great Plains in Texas to the lush Pacific Northwest, these tribes — each with their own traditions, ...

Researchers were working at the site as part of UCF’s Cape Canaveral Archaeological Mitigation Project (CCAMP).

LOS ANGELES — Official U.S. records dramatically underestimate mortality and life expectancy disparities for Native Americans, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Journal of the ...

Each summer the Office of Indigenous Relations at the University of Nevada, Reno, invites Native American high school students from across the state interested in attending college to participate in ...

Death rates for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) are far higher than reported in official vital statistics, according to a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health ...

The contributions of material objects to ethnohistory in Native North America / Michael S. Nassaney and Eric S. Johnson -- Ritual and material culture as keys to cultural continuity: Native American ...

“Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie,” wrote Willa Cather, author of “O Pioneers!,” the saga of early westward struggles and the kind of character it took to ...

In 1928, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance published a memoir that caused a sensation in the literary world. It opened with his earliest memory: Barely a year old, he was riding in a moss baby carrier on ...

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NEW CURRICULUM. WE’RE INSIDE THE UNIVERSITY UNION BALLROOM, WHERE PEOPLE ARE GATHERED THIS MORNING IN CELEBRATION OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN COLLEGE AND ITS GRAND OPENING THAT IS ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! When America’s founders were walking the cobblestones of Philadelphia in 1776 while ...

A new study in JAMA reveals the “statistical erasure” of Indigenous Americans, finding that the gap between AI/AN life expectancy and the national average was 2.9 times greater than official vital ...