The broad term “Native American” is typically used to describe the Indigenous people who inhabited the land now known as the U.S. for thousands of years before European colonization.

Photograph by JOSUÉ RIVASTribal affiliation: Mexica and Otomi Protesters fighting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline leave the Oceti Sakowin camp near the Standing Rock Indian ...

In the early spring of 1942, when the Army Corps of Engineers arrived to begin building the Alaska Highway, Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native ...

Native nations regained federally recognized rights and political power at the same time as the national environmental awakening. In fact, tribal nations exercised environmental sovereignty in ways ...

Director, Center for the Study of the First Americans and Professor of Anthropology, Oregon State University The significance of the Kennewick Man discovery should be understood in light of ...

The Polynesian islands that span the southern part of the Pacific Ocean—the eastern most of which is Rapa Nui, or Easter Island—were initially settled by a wave of migration from Asia. It’s been less ...