To be recognized as Native American, a person must have proof of sufficient ancestry from a federally recognized tribe, says the U.S. Department of the Interior Indian Affairs.

Founded in 1998, with the encouragement of the late Thomasina E. Jordan, the mission of the American Indian Resource Center (AIRC) seeks to serve the Native community, scholars and students interested ...

Drawing from the legacy of our earliest alumni, including the famous legal intellectual Vine Deloria ’70, and our relationship with the Native American Rights Fund, our approach to American Indian Law ...

In this collection, explore stories celebrating and honoring the history and lives of Native Americans—throughout history and today. From the award-winning PBS series American Experience comes ...

But they were also forced to give up all traces of their ancestry at more than 400 ... At a minimum, more than 500 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children died at these ...

Ovarian Cancer Test May Miss Black and Native American Patients FRIDAY ... Middle Eastern or West Indian ancestry. The study also found that women who got a false negative result started ...

Three tribal nations and five Native American students say in a lawsuit that the Trump administration has failed its legal obligations to tribes when it cut jobs at Bureau of Indian Education schools.

The event is rooted in African and Native American influences, with ties to both Catholic and Black masking Indian traditions ...

Chavez Lamar was a presidential appointee to the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development ... Chavez Lamar is an enrolled member at San Felipe Pueblo, and her ...