Native American tribes across the West are trying — and in more and more cases succeeding — in getting ancestral lands back.

Sins are powerful – and for many – lucrative. Native American Tribes understand their economic strength For many Native American tribes, economic self-sufficiency has long been a priority. In the ...

The Wampanoag are a Native American tribe that has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for over 10,000 years. Jenaya Perry, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, competes ...

Centuries-old documents told of Native American settlements in the Fones Cliffs area of the Rappahannock River in Virginia’s Northern Neck. In the 1600s, English explorer John Smith wrote of how he ...

TIME asked 11 experts on indigenous history which Native American historymakers readers should know about. Their responses have been lightly edited. In 1889, Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte graduated top ...

A proposal by the Crow tribal chair could dramatically change who counts as a Crow tribal member under the “blood quantum” standard, a concept created by White settlers and rooted in assimilation ...