Throughout November, Colonial Williamsburg is celebrating Native American Heritage Month with new programming as part of its effort to tell a more accurate story of America’s origins. Martin Saniga, ...

Gounder, MD, ScM is a Senior Fellow and Editor-at-Large for Public Health at the Kaiser Family Foundation and Kaiser Health News. She is also an infectious disease specialist and an epidemiologist. In ...

Six and one-half years. That’s the decline in life expectancy that the COVID-19 pandemic wrought upon American Indians and Alaska Natives, based on an August 2022 report from the National Center for ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Colonial Williamsburg has announced a whole lineup of special programs to commemorate National Native American Heritage Month. Programs will range from harrowing tales involving ...

Two years ago, Courtney Lewis launched the university’s first-ever Native American studies research program: Research for Indigenous Studies and Engagement in the United States (or RISE-US). An ...

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 ...

An online journal written primarily by American Indian educators has been launched by the University of Minnesota Duluth. Called "Bemaadizing: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Indigenous Life," the ...

CHEYENNE - On a hot, breezy summer afternoon, when the late afternoon rains were amassing in the western skies, the sound of the drums began to beat, and the dancers in their outfits - bright, ...

Kasey Keeler talks about federal Indian policy and American Indian suburbanization. Kasey Keeler, assistant professor in American Indian & Indigenous Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ...

Six art students at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor are staging an unusual protest against an exhibit on American Indians at the university’s Museum of Natural History that they consider ...