The new era of social consciousness and racial activism in the 1970s would play a pivotal role in the events leading up to the 71-day occupation Dennis Zotigh Two Natives waiting for the fire fight, ...

CSUN held its 40th annual Powwow on Saturday to celebrate the American Indian communities of Southern California.

Leonard Peltier, 80, sits in his bedroom on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Reservation in North Dakota on June 18. A campaign poster for Deb Haaland’s 2026 New Mexico gubernatorial run hangs ...

Tensions that had been smoldering on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota flared up 50 years ago this week, when activists from the American Indian Movement took over the town of Wounded Knee.

Sometime toward the end of the eighteen-eighties, a Paiute holy man named Wovoka had a vision that promised the rebirth and renewal of Indigenous nations on the North American continent. His prophecy ...

In February 1973, Stephanie Autumn of the Hopi tribe was a college student in California when a friend suggested she leave school and go get a different sort of education somewhere else: Wounded Knee, ...

In 1977, American Indian Movement member Leonard Peltier was convicted of the murder of two FBI agents, and has remained a political prisoner of the US ever since. Peltier’s conviction has long been ...

In 1973, hundreds of Native American activists occupied the town of Wounded Knee to demand the US government fulfill its treaties with tribes. The siege galvanized the movement for Indigenous rights ...

GRAND FORKS - The timing was coincidental, but Russell Means would have appreciated it: On the day he died, workers began removing the prominent "Home of the Fighting Sioux" signs from Ralph Engelstad ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. In this excerpt from “American Indians and the American Dream: ...

With tiles falling off the ceiling, mold growing up the wall and spotty internet, hidden in Scott Hall’s basement is the American Indian Studies department (AIS), with its powerful legacy dating back ...

Native American artwork and artifacts are being taken down or covered up all around including right here in Ohio.It's the result of an updated federal law about how native American pieces can be ...