Our future as a nation depends on remembering that we rise higher when we rise together. The Native story is the American ...

Billy Frank Jr., left, a Nisqually tribal elder, was arrested dozens of times while trying to assert his native fishing rights during the 'Fish Wars' of the 1960s and 1970s. In this 2014 photo, he ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (THE CONVERSATION) When ...

The South Sierra Miwuk Nation was expelled from the lands 175 years ago.

The University of Oklahoma’s Native Nations Center for Tribal Policy Research recently named Grace Fox as its first tribal ...

Historian Elizabeth Ellis is a key player in an exhibition that brings to light the little-known diplomatic history. An ...

Combine ancient wisdom and modern science to answer a 15,000-year-old question: who were America's First Peoples? The answer hides in Amazonian cave paintings, Mexican burial chambers, New Mexico's ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the large-scale Earth Day protests on April 22, 1970 – often credited with spurring significant environmental protection legislation – Native Americans stewarded the ...

When the founders of the United States designed the Constitution, they were learning from history that democracy was likely ...