Most people living in the United States are familiar with the terms “Native American,” “American Indian,” and, increasingly, “Indigenous American” or “Indigenous peoples.” But if you’re still ...

The government actively worked to separate Native American families through boarding schools and forced adoptions. Check out the documentaries below to begin your learning journey on this traumatic ...

A member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada, Ned Blackhawk is a professor of history and American Studies at Yale University and the author of Violence over the Land: Indians ...

Last week, the U.S. Department of the Interior released a more than 100-page report on the federal Indigenous boarding schools designed to assimilate Native Americans in the late 19th and the early ...

The lawsuit filed by the Wichita and Washoe tribes demands an accounting of an estimated $23.3 billion in misappropriated funds.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Thursday announced the launch of a statewide criminal investigation into Indian ...

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Forty years ago, the American ...

This week, staff working with the Office of Army Cemeteries begin the somber work of trying to repatriate 19 Native Americans to their home tribes and closest descendants. All the youths died in the ...

Welcome to the Native American Studies (NAS) program in the Ethnic Studies Department at Sac State! NAS is an interdisciplinary academic field continuing a more than 50-year legacy of activist ...

A Native American advocacy organization has been given ownership of the 1970s "Crying Indian" PSA, an iconic advertisement that has been accused of perpetuating stereotypes. The National Congress of ...

Colorado writer Erika Wurth has earned accolades from the New York Times and Good Morning America for her new novel based on her native American heritage — but it’s a past, her detractors say, that ...