After decades of political maneuvering through Congress and government agencies, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina may ...

Over 400 years ago, English explorer John Smith wrote of several Indigenous settlements along a river in modern-day Virginia.

Live Science reports that artifacts unearthed in the Fones Cliffs area of Virginia’s Rappahannock River may provide evidence of a village described by English colonist John Smith, who was elected ...

For more than 10,000 years before Europeans arrived, the Northeast was home to many tribes with organized leadership and ...

In the 1850s, miners, settlers and soldiers violently drove them out of the Yosemite area during the Gold Rush. Now, 175 ...

The Baduy, an indigenous Indonesian group, upholds a strict smoke-free lifestyle as part of their cultural and spiritual ...

Franciscan nuns in Wisconsin transferred their land to the Lac du Flambeau tribe, believed to be the first such "land return" by a Catholic group in the U.S.

Members of the Wampanoag perform a dance as they share their cultural dances with the public and call on them to take part ...

The Wampanoag are a Native American tribe that has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for over 10,000 years. The Wampanoag did eventually help the Pilgrims, but it was a ...

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 ...

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is the only federally recognized tribe operating within Mississippi. Thirteen other federally recognized tribes have historical ties to Mississippi but are now ...

An estimated 4,200 MMIP cases remain unsolved nationwide. How overlapping jurisdiction, distance and funding shortfalls ...