SANBORNTON — Peter Newell pounds the Mountain Spirit Drum as he sings traditional tribal songs of the Eastern American Indians, his fellow group members pounding and singing as well. Newell, 64, a ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – Nearly 20 tribal nations living in western Massachusetts are coming together this weekend, hoping to share their traditions. The fifth annual Odenong Powwow is taking place in ...

EAST GRAND FORKS — A small group of first-graders hovered around the table, watching intently as Dennis “Spiritdancer” Rogers dropped a grain of colored sand onto the image of an eagle in a shallow ...

Museums who are engaged with interpreting Native American cultures should strive to have a partnership with local recognized ...

Four years before Oregon became a state, the Tribes of Middle Oregon and the United States government signed the Treaty of 1855. The treaty ceded 10 million acres of land to the United States. At the ...

SUQUAMISH – For hundreds of years, canoes have been integral to the Suquamish tribe – the “people of the clear salt water” – and many other Coast Salish tribes. The canoes, carefully crafted from ...

The Oak Fire, which burned roughly 20,000 acres west of Yosemite National Park last summer, was devastating to the area's Indigenous tribes — including the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation. The tribe is ...

Most people wouldn't be surprised to learn that John Hottowe achieved enhanced social status from a vast box of treasure. More unusual is that the prestige came from what the Makah elder gave, not ...

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde are buying back some of the land that was lost to broken treaties and U.S. termination policy. Walking between the battered, old industrial buildings that used ...

Several dozen tribal radio stations were caught in the crossfire of federal funding cuts this fall. NPR's Frank Langfitt visited one station in Colorado navigating its survival.