A man who held himself out as a Native American activist was sentenced Wednesday to 46 years in prison for drugging and ...

A Colorado Democrat turned Republican, he was the only Native American during three terms in the House and 12 years in the ...

Which U.S. states have the largest Hispanic populations—and which barely have any at all? In this video, we rank all 50 states from lowest to highest Hispanic population, using real population numbers ...

Native American oral history and archaeological data alike suggest that farmers in parts of North America began abandoning major settlements such as Mesa Verde in Colorado and Cahokia in Illinois ...

It’s estimated that around 7 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, a number that’s expected to double by 2060. But researchers have found that some of the highest rates of cognitive impairment ...

In the summer of 2024, excavations along Virginia's Fones Cliffs unearthed approximately 11,000 artifacts—pottery shards, stone tools, beads, and pipes—confirming what the Rappahannock Tribe had ...

Through documentaries and dramas, animations and music videos, this collection highlights the cultural and linguistic diversity of the Americas. Eve Reid In the Mother Tongue Story Map, films are ...

It’s a sunny spring morning as Nakai Clearwater Northup stands amid white pine trees, near a river, surveying the land. Looking at his Narragansett homelands in southern Rhode Island, he says hunting ...

Each fall, when the oak trees turn color in the foothills above Highland, I think about my grandparents, my parents James and Rowena Ramos, and the generations who lived and prayed on this land long ...

What do social climbers and gossipmongers have in common? My mother would tell me that both are morally suspect. This moral umbrage is etched into lessons from fairy tales and scripture that we ...

Water is life, especially in the desert. The Indigenous people of the area today known as Southern Nevada know this. The Las Vegas Wash, for example, was once an important trading ground for the ...

Native American historian Ned Blackhawk joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultures and histories of the indigenous peoples of North America. Why were reservations ...