The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country as they commune with friends and family Dennis Zotigh Beckham Barehand (Dine ...

MAYETTA, Kan. (AP) — The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, whose ancestors were uprooted by the U.S. from the Great Lakes region in the 1830s, are facing outrage from fellow Native Americans over plans ...

Step into the slow, soulful rhythm of provincial life in the Philippines. From early morning harvests and carabao rides to home-cooked meals by the palayan, Buhay Probinsya by Kabagis captures the ...

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 ...

Despite being the original inhabitants of this land, Native American voters have faced centuries of discrimination pushed by leaders who intentionally block tribal communities from opportunities and ...

In the U.S., there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes and Alaska Native entities, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior. As for Louisiana, the state is home to more ...

Indigenous actress Elaine Miles is most remembered from the 1990s TV show “Northern Exposure,” though more recently, she was as a guest star on an episode of “Last of Us.” But this week, she says she ...

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 ...

CAROLYN MORRIS flicks through a bulky folder in her office in To’Hajiilee, New Mexico. The clinical psychologist has filled it with the sorts of billing, evaluation and note-taking procedures that are ...

In her new cookbook “Rooted in Fire: A Celebration of Native American and Mexican Cooking,” Pyet DeSpain, Season 1 winner of Gordon Ramsay’s “Next Level Chef” competition series, offers a warm ...

Rekha Basu is a longtime syndicated columnist, editorial writer, reporter and author of the book, “Finding Your Voice.” She retired in 2022 as a Des Moines Register columnist. U.S. Immigration and ...

Raven Price-Smith remembers how starved she was to find other Native Americans when she moved to Austin four years ago. The 23-year-old had grown up as the only Native American at her high school in a ...