Native American

A vehicle plowed through a crowd during a parade in New Mexico on Thursday.

The Interior Department documented more than 500 deaths of Indigenous children, but it’s far from a complete count. “We have a long way to go,” one expert said.

Native American tribes have reached opioid settlements worth over a half-billion dollars with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three distributors

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on students of the University of Mary Washington creating a trail in King George County spotlighting local Native American tribes.

Some professional sports teams finally changed their names after decades of protest. Others remain committed to obsolete stereotypes. Studies have shown the damage caused by schools and teams that continue to use Indigenous cultures as themes and mascots, yet they persist across the United States.

Here are some ways to celebrate National Native American Heritage Month in Washington, D.C., and online.

Dozens of works from Native American filmmakers are online for the 21st annual Native Cinema Showcase, sponsored by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

November is National Native American Heritage Month, honoring the heritage of Native American and Indigenous peoples. It is also referred to as National American Indian Heritage Month or National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. Here’s why the month is celebrated. National Native American Heritage month is celebrated annually in November to recognize Native American and Indigenous peoples, the...

Cleveland took another step toward its transition away from a Native American mascot this week as it took down the Indians name from on top of its scoreboard. Cleveland’s baseball team has been renamed the Guardians, a name it will begin using starting with the 2022 season.

Lumped into the “Other” racial and ethnic category, American Indians and Alaska Natives are effectively invisible on Maryland’s state website for COVID-19

The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota is home to the Oglala Lakota nation — people whose ancestors survived generations of oppression and violence. Today, half live below the poverty line and many go without basics like running water. Life expectancy for Lakota men is 47 and for women is 53, lower than any country in the world. That...

Native American lawmakers in Montana are asking the Biden administration to craft a plan to reintroduce wild bison to areas in and around Glacier National Park and the Charles M

Native American comic book fans hope a new Marvel anthology by Native artists and writers will jump-start authentic representation in mainstream superhero fare

Protesters used a rope to pull down a 10-foot bronze statue of Christopher Columbus outside the Minnesota State Capitol on Wednesday.

Native American voting rights advocates are cautioning against states moving to mail-in ballots without opportunities for tribal members to vote safely in person.

The Tohono O’odham Nation, a Native American tribe in southern Arizona opposed to building a border wall that could imperil wildlife and artifacts in the area’s fragile landscape, is accusing the Defense Department of failing to consult with it in line with federal requirements.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., made a surprise appearance at a luncheon honoring Native American women leaders on Tuesday amid ongoing controversy over her past claims of Native heritage. The 2020 contender made brief remarks at the National Indian Women Honor Luncheon in Washington, where she introduced and honored Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, the chairwoman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts. Warren’s campaign...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has issued a broader apology for claiming Native American ancestry amid a report that she identified herself as an “American Indian” on her registration for the State Bar of Texas. The broader apology comes after The Washington Post obtained and published Warren’s 1986 registration card for the State Bar of Texas, in which she identifies as “American...

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has apologized to the Cherokee Nation for her decision to release the results of a DNA test showing she has distant Native American ancestry, the tribe said Friday. “Senator Warren has reached out to us and has apologized to the tribe,” Julie Hubbard, the executive director of Cherokee Nation Communications, said in a statement to...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren suggested President Donald Trump’s comment about him personally administering a DNA test to her to prove her Native American heritage is “creepy.” She tweeted that the president makes “creepy physical threats” about women who scare him, including her. “He’s trying to do what he always does to women who scare him: call us names, attack us personally,...