Native American animals and their meanings form a profound spiritual vocabulary that indigenous cultures have developed through thousands of years of close observation and reverence for the natural ...

The Duwamish Tribe, a group of Indigenous people that has sought federal recognition as a sovereign Indian nation for nearly 50 years, will get another chance to make its case, a judge ruled last week ...

Native American tribes across the West are trying — and in more and more cases succeeding — in getting ancestral lands back.

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is the only federally recognized tribe operating within Mississippi. Thirteen other federally recognized tribes have historical ties to Mississippi but are now ...