Warming seas and increased flooding threaten a way of life for Native Americans who have called the Pacific Northwest coast ...

Marissa Russo is a former STAT intern supported by the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship. American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States live nearly four years less than ...

Official U.S. records dramatically underestimate mortality and life expectancy disparities for Native Americans, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Journal of the American ...

It’s a sunny spring morning as Nakai Clearwater Northup stands amid white pine trees, near a river, surveying the land. Looking at his Narragansett homelands in southern Rhode Island, he says hunting ...

Discover the 25 most important totem animals and their meanings to gain a better understanding of what they mean in the world ...

The Detroit Institute of Arts has long been known for the strength of its Native American collection, yet the museum functioned without a Native American curator for more than a decade and it has been ...

Window Rock, Ariz. — Navajo Nation leaders took turns talking with the U.S. government's top health official as they hiked along a sandstone ridge overlooking their rural, high-desert town before the ...

People often look to indigenous traditions for spiritual guidance, and these 25 Native American animals and their meanings ...

CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — The Carlisle Indian Industrial School had not yet held its first class when Matavito Horse and Leah Road Traveler were taken there in October 1879, drafted into the U.S.