The Latest Breaking News on Native America

Students and administrators in one New York school district are wrestling with how to respond to the state’s newly approved ban on the use of Native American-themed logos and names

Described as a ‘botanical wonderland’, the rocky ridge is home to more than 30 species of rare plants and Indigenous village sites

Leaders of Brazil's Mura people said on Friday tensions have risen in the Autazes region where they live after a federal agency crew visited the area to discuss potentially demarcating their ancestral land, which overlaps with an area where a Canadian company wants to build a potash mine. 

Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has approved the creation of six Indigenous territories, the first such move after a five-year hiatus in Indigenous demarcation

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva legally recognized six Indigenous territories on Friday, fulfilling a campaign promise to reverse the policy of his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro said Brazil's original people had too much land.

The public Owyhee Combined School in the Duck Valley Indian Reservation called on lawmakers Thursday to provide funding for a new school

The National Endowment for the Humanities is supporting an effort to record oral histories and digitize records on Indigenous boarding schools

Treaty 8 First Nations and the government of British Columbia have recently concluded two historical agreements on Treaty Land Entitlement and land and resource management.

Maasai leaders say they have few options as Tanzanian officials lock down protected areas

Tobacco pipes were one of the first mass-produced, disposable objects in Britain. Through contact with indigenous peoples of the Americas, tobacco pipes and tobacco were introduced to Europe as early as the 16th century, but had been used in the Americas for centuries before this.

The first Indigenous Games of Peruibe took place last weekend to celebrate local culture and give competitors wooden medals in archery, tug of war, soccer, a Brazilian Indigenous wrestling sport named Uca-Uca, a log carrying relay race on the beach, dart blowing and others