Earlier this month, the Illinois House passed legislation — House Bill 1237 — that would phase out the use of Native American-based mascots and logos in our state’s elementary and high schools.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Postal Service will be hosting a first-day-of-issue ceremony for the "powwow" stamps, which are designed to celebrate Native American culture. The stamps are created ...

Native Americans throughout the University of California system are calling out scholars who claim Indigenous heritage without evidence and demanding action from campuses that hire them.

Docents will guide children ages 5 to 10 years old in making rattles, clapper sticks and other Native American inspired musical instruments from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Kumeyaay-Ipai Interpretive ...

Young Indigenous sisters spoke out about how hurtful they found the portrayals of Native Americans within the Golden-based Westernaires. They have now left the group, ...

The origins of Native American Heritage Month trace back to early 20th-century Indigenous leaders like Dr. Arthur C. Parker of the Seneca Nation, who advocated for an “American Indian Day” to ...

E ach year during Native American Heritage Month in November, school classrooms around the country focus on Indigenous history. For educators in Illinois, this fall marks the first school year ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- The beat of the drum echoed throughout the campus of Cal State Long Beach as the school kicked off Native American Heritage Month with tribal dancing, singing and crafts.

Dolls dressed in the traditional garb of a range of Native American tribes stood alongside models of Lakota teepees, Pueblo adobe houses and Inuit igloos Friday at Oliver Brown Elementary.

In 2024, Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, granting Native Americans voting rights. But the fight to exercise those rights is ongoing.

The Perry Center for Native American Art is budgeted to cost $12.5 million, and will include more than 500 Indigenous items from 389 Tribal Nations, according to a news release.

Additionally, the commercialization of Native American crafts can sometimes blur the line between genuine indigenous work and mass-produced imitation.