ARLINGTON, VA (June 26, 2023) – NATIVE AMERICA returns this October to PBS with four new hour-long episodes that present a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Native America. Building on the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From stories that span modern Native life to history's reverberating impact on the U.S. trust and treaty obligations with tribal ...

Native people inhabited the land that would become the United States long before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But it wasn’t until 1924, when Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, ...

Soft watercolor smudges of vibrant red, turquoise, and yellow sprawl across the first pages of the children’s book Jingle Dancer, by Cynthia Leitich Smith. Head in hand, Smith’s young protagonist, ...

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, ...

Life expectancy for American Indian and Alaska Natives declined over the past two years, and dropped more than other populations in the U.S., according to a recently released national study. For ...

Youth participants from the Pauma, La Jolla and Viejas Reservations for a Native Like Water InterTribal Youth program. (Photo courtesy of Native Like Water) LA JOLLA – For Indigenous communities, ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian returns to Santa Fe for its Native Cinema Showcase. The museum’s 24th annual celebration showcases the best of Indigenous film from Thursday, ...

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 ...

The pandemic reduced Native American life expectancy at birth from the already low 72 years in 2019 to about 67 years in 2020 and about 65 years in 2021 for both sexes combined. Native Americans ...

A study by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Hā Kūpuna—National Resource Center for Native Hawaiian Elders sheds light on the end-of-life care preferences of Native Hawaiian kūpuna (elders). Led by ...