LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Over a decade later, human remains found in Nye County have since been returned to its native tribe, officials say. The Nye County Sheriff’s Office said in July 2010, partial ...

The Pembroke-based Lumbee tribe was federally recognized by Congress in December after a nearly 140-year fight. Here's what's ...

After being lost in a Soviet vault for decades, the first feature film made in Idaho, in 1919, is now returning to screens. It includes significant depictions of Nez Perce tribal members. Some of the ...

Washington Post reporter Dana Hedgpeth has extensively covered the 523 Indian boarding schools established in the US, where 3,104 students died between 1828 and 1970.

Native American tribes and ancient Mound Builders in Ohio left no written record, but we can learn about them from what they left behind. Ancient Mound Builders known as Adena, Hopewell and Fort ...

In her Rhode Island kitchen, Deborah Spears Moorehead pores over a collection of Census records scattered across her table. The Native American painter, who was recently an artist-in-residence at ...

Herbal medicines discovered long ago by Native Americans are recognized today for their healing powers. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge spoke to members of local tribes about how they sustained ...

Hundreds of years before the arrival of the first Europeans, Indigenous farmers were growing crops like squash, corn and beans in earthen mounds they built on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The ...

Centuries-old documents told of Native American settlements in the Fones Cliffs area of the Rappahannock River in Virginia’s Northern Neck. In the 1600s, English explorer John Smith wrote of how he ...

Water is life, especially in the desert. The Indigenous people of the area today known as Southern Nevada know this. The Las Vegas Wash, for example, was once an important trading ground for the ...