November marks Native American Heritage Month — a time not just for remembrance but for recognition. It’s a time to celebrate who we are today: sovereign nations, community leaders, innovators and ...

A preview of the American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Mission's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People ...

Many universities and museums in the U.S. have long held Native American burial artifacts that came from excavations and research carried out without Native American consent.

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! When America’s founders were walking the cobblestones of Philadelphia in 1776 while ...

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

When historian and University of Nebraska associate professor Max Perry Mueller was first contemplating titles for the book that would become Wakara’s America—a profile of the 19th-century Ute tribal ...

The Native American sport, in which players use two sticks to carry and toss a small ball, is considered one of the oldest ...

Native American jingle dancers and ribbon dress dancers dance in front of the site where Alex Pretti was killed by federal agents, during a healing ceremony in Minneapolis, Minn. on Feb. 1, 2026. For ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." November is Native American Heritage Month, an opportunity to celebrate the proud culture and history of ...

DNA reveals a previously unknown wave of people settled in South America 1,300 years ago and that Indigenous Americans carry remnants of a "ghost lineage." ...