Archaeologists have found what they say is proof of Native American villages mentioned by English explorer John Smith.

The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State, by Donald L. Fixico, University of Oklahoma Press, 206 pages, $34.95 In McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), the Supreme Court ...

Here's a brief look at the history of the country's most prominent Native American tribes. It's commonly believed that Native American origins reach far back to late in the Ice Age when the first ...

Maps hold power. For millennia, the borders and place names represented on world maps signify who claims or possesses control of a geographic region. Through colonization, violent conquest or ...

Rosie Clayburn is a descendant of the Yurok Tribe, which had its territory — called 'O Rew in the Yurok language — ripped from them nearly two centuries ago. "As the natural world became completely ...

If you're near Kinnick Stadium on a Saturday when the Iowa Hawkeyes are competing in a football game, you will probably hear the chanting of "I-O-W-A" from nearly 70,000 raucous fans. But what if, ...

Tucked within the expansive Native American halls of the American Museum of Natural History is a diminutive wooden doll that holds a sacred place among the tribes whose territories once included ...

In McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), the Supreme Court rejected Oklahoma's attempt to prosecute crimes committed on a reservation by an Indian. Henceforth, the tribe, not the state, would have jurisdiction ...