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 ...

Lillian Karabaic: When students learn about Oregon’s history, the narrative of the land’s Native people often takes a backseat to the stories of the European settlers on the Oregon Trail or the Gold ...

The Cowlitz Indian Tribe announced Friday it’s the official owner of Columbia River Mental Health Services’ NorthStar Clinic, settling negotiations that began last year after the nonprofit faced finan ...

More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were held in two Arizona camps in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What are the Mardi Gras Indians, how many are there and what is their history? Dear Reader, The Mardi Gras Indians are a fascinating subculture of New Orleans. They are hierarchical, territorial ...