A tour group from the Oregon California Trail Association annual convention waits on the side of the road after their bus breaks down north of Pendleton, Ore. on July 24, 2024. The Oregon Trail may ...

FARGO — As a boy, Frank Bennett Fiske watched in awe from a trading store window as a wagon procession with a cavalry escort carried the disfigured body of Sitting Bull to Fort Yates. Fiske had been ...

EAST NEW MARKET, MD - A new historical marker was unveiled today in Dorchester County to commemorate the former Choptank Indian Reservation, a significant site for the Eastern Shore's indigenous ...

Climate change is threatening the Pamunkey Indian Reservation, and now the National Trust for Historic Preservation has named the area as one of the most endangered historic sites in the country.

Rhyia Joyheart, 26, is no stranger to the day-to-day grind of 21st-century life, such as rising rent, high grocery bills, and long hours spent in city traffic. Born on Wyoming’s Wind River Indian ...

A small Native American tribe in the western Upper Peninsula is looking to Congress to compensate it for the federal government’s taking of thousands of acres of their reservation land in Baraga ...

Colorado’s history can often be headline news. That includes things like the proposed renaming of Mt. Evans or the removal of a statue of a Civil War soldier. It prompted a listener to ask CPR’s ...

America is getting ready to celebrate its 250th birthday, and each day leading up to that event, we are featuring a piece of ...

Karen Moore stands in the crop garden on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota (November 2021). Photograph by Taylor Irvine. © Tailyr Irvine. Note: All ...

This year Indigenous People’s Day marks 100 years since Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, granting U.S. citizenship to Native Americans. Americans are usually shocked when they learn that ...

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux (center) leads his Mardi Gras Indian tribe, the Golden Eagles, on Super Sunday. Courtesy of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Council When Mardi Gras Indians parade down the ...

RICHLAND, Wash. — Three federally recognized tribes have devoted decades to restoring the condition of their ancestral lands in southeastern Washington state to what they were before those lands ...