The Wichita Tribe and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California filed a lawsuit Thursday saying the federal government used the trust fund money of tribes to pay for boarding schools where ...

Discover how traditional smoke ceremonies cleanse spaces, balance energy fields and deliver plant medicine through carefully ...

For the first time, an international study has deciphered the genome of the population of Brazil. Published in the journal ...

The New York State Board of Regents voted unanimously in April of 2023 to ban the use of Native mascots and imagery for ...

The stories in Mary Annette Pember’s new book, Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools, are almost unbearable. They ...

For decades, Zulema 'Julie' Morales has harvested peyote in Rio Grande City, along the southern border in Texas, the only ...

The decision by President Donald Trump to fire Carla Hayden, the librarian of Congress, a scant year before her 10-year term ...

Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world's scientific community has been racing to decipher this "book" written in an alphabet of four letters.

Full of unvarnished anguish, it’s both a solemn history of ... president of the Native American Journalists’ Association and a freelance writer. Talking about “Medicine River” recently ...

This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a ...

Native Americans have used these plants traditionally as medicine for centuries, and they are collaborating with Salk in studying them.

Over thousands of years, humans from Eurasia trekked more than 12,400 miles to eventually reach the southernmost tip of South America, a new genetic investigation suggests ...