For generations, Native Americans prized dentalium or tusk shells as currency, status symbols and sacred objects. Harvested in the Pacific, they were traded thousands of miles inland, held real value ...

Homer is a fourth-generation bead worker. Beginning at age 8, she was taught by her mother, Rosalie Tompkins. She started ...

The annual Gathering of Nations Powwow begins Friday at Expo New Mexico in Albuquerque. The festivities officially kicked off ...

Side Street Studio Arts in downtown Elgin will present “Voices Visible,” a pop-up exhibition featuring the work of five ...

Furious school-board members in the Long Island town are asking President Trump to help them fight to keep their district’s Native American logo after a judge recently ruled against them in ...

A South Dakota airman accused of killing a Native American woman at Ellsworth Air Force Base has now been charged with first-degree murder and could face the death penalty if convicted.

But for La Jolla native Ian Ward Brininstool (who goes by Ian Ward), that’s exactly what happened during his recent audition in front of the “American Idol” judges. And it resulted in him ...

The Los Rios Community College District continues to enforce a moratorium on “images and reproductions of Native American human remains and cultural items” after a new policy to narrow the ban ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaiʻi), Vice Chairman of the Committee, led an oversight ...

Bald eagle spreading its wings. Image by Mshake via Depositphotos. In Native American art, bald eagles are depicted in various forms, ranging from intricate beadwork to vivid paintings and sculptures.

"Crime rates in American Indian and Alaska Native communities are unacceptably high," U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement. "By surging FBI resources and collaborating closely ...

marking a continuation of efforts by the federal government to address high rates of violence affecting Native American communities. The U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday that the ...