Every November since 1975, Indian people have gathered on Alcatraz Island, in the San Francisco Bay, on what they call "Un-Thanksgiving Day," to honor the occupation and those who participated and still fight for Indian rights today. This year was the...

NEW YORK (AP) - Members of one of America's oldest Protestant churches officially apologized Friday - for the first time - for massacring and displacing Native Americans 400 years ago. "We consumed your resources, dehumanized your people and dis....

"On November 29, 1864, 700 soldiers of the Colorado 1st and 3rd Cavalries slaughtered, mutilated, raped, and murdered over 400 Cheyenne and Arapaho children, women, elders, and disabled. Originally this act was called "The Battle of Sand Creek." ...

A new National Native American National Heritage day is being celebrated in the United States on November 27, the day after most people there celebrated Thanksgiving. The new national holiday is the culmination of an annual National Native American ....

Because I have served with the title "Expert Witness for History" five times on behalf of four tribes of Sioux before the federal courts, from experience I know that non-Indians' legal representatives use scare tactics to arouse public opinion as well...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Nearly 600 people crowded the ballroom at the Kalispel Tribe's Northern Quest Resort and Casino to honor the 2009 Hometown Heroes at a luncheon, an annual event of the Inland Northwest Chapter of the American Red Cross. Local heroes ...

At first glance Burger King's "Whopper Virgins" television and online advertising campaign might seem creative and whimsical, but as an indigenous person I find it deeply problematic. The campaign involves Burger King representatives providing ...

MOENKOPI, Ariz. -- Tourists traveling the vast expanse of tribal lands in Northern Arizona soon will have a venue to learn about the culture of one of the oldest indigenous tribes in America. A $13 million hotel and conference center billed as the ...

By Thomas Costello President and CEO Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion President Obama recently signed a proclamation making November Native American Heritage Month. Addressing more than 500 leaders from federally recognized ...

For more than three months, the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe's Ziibiwing Center has been charged with caring for "inadvertently discovered" Native American ancestral remains in the Carriage Town District of Genesee County. The Saginaw Chippewa ...