The Chippewa Cree Tribe has a better shot at electing a county commissioner “who understands Native issues,” a tribal member said in a Tuesday statement following a settlement in a lawsuit that will ...

PEMBROKE, N.C. (WTVD) -- The North Carolina Lumbee Tribe is closer to gaining full federal recognition as the measure advances through Congress. The U.S. Senate began voting Tuesday on a spending bill ...

On Dec. 14, 1763, white settlers, known as the Paxton Boys, brutally murdered six members of the Conestoga tribe, at their village in Manor Township. Less than two weeks later, on Dec. 27, the Paxton ...

A Native American tribe that was displaced by the establishment of Yosemite National Park is getting part of its lands back. The land transfer, from Pacific Forest Trust, is considered a major ...

An order of Catholic nuns in Wisconsin recently returned land they had purchased in 1966 to the Indigenous tribe that originally settled it. During a ceremony with deep spiritual symbolism, the ...

The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin this month reburied the remains of 67 ancestors that were excavated in the 1960s and held for decades by the Milwaukee Public Museum. It’s the latest ...

Indigenous actress Elaine Miles is most remembered from the 1990s TV show “Northern Exposure,” though more recently, she was as a guest star on an episode of “Last of Us.” But this week, she says she ...