Body modifications and piercings have been a part of human culture for millennia, serving as rites of passage, symbols of status, or expressions of identity. Piercings hold a special place, with roots ...

But Native identity in Missouri did not disappear. For many families, it lives on, not just in museums or textbooks, but in ...

Native American tribes and ancient Mound Builders in Ohio left no written record, but we can learn about them from what they left behind. Ancient Mound Builders known as Adena, Hopewell and Fort ...

A ritual dance would reunite his people with their dead. The Ghost Dance swept across other North American tribes, until fear and violence brought it to a tragic end.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly called, were once close to extinction. Their numbers dropped from ...

A lot of students in the U.S. just never learn that much about Native Americans in school. In recent years, some states have worked to include more Native perspectives and lessons. A new animated film ...

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe aims to expand its buffalo herd from 324 to over a thousand, revitalizing their economy, land, and Native culture.

Chuckwalla National Monument is a protected area spanning 624,000 acres in the Southern California desert. Native American tribes throughout the area consider this landscape sacred and an important ...

Increasingly, travelers throughout the U.S. are looking for meaningful ways to learn the stories of and engage in the cultures of Indigenous communities whose ancestral lands they’re visiting.

“Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie,” wrote Willa Cather, author of “O Pioneers!,” the saga of early westward struggles and the kind of character it took to ...

Chuckwalla National Monument is more than an epic expanse of towering rocks, hidden canyons, ghost flowers, smoke trees and its namesake lizard. One of America’s newest protected public lands is a ...