Before European contact, the Cherokee had a practice of adopting and enslaving prisoners of war from other tribes.

But to millions of Indigenous Americans, the story of Thanksgiving is also closely intertwined with their history of invasion ...

Celebrated author Thomas King has discovered that he has no Cherokee ancestry despite believing throughout his life that he ...

The Arapaho people in Wyoming and Colorado believe their language can still survive, and so do I. That’s why I am working to combine decades of language documentation with new technological approaches ...

Thomas King says he feels as though he has been ‘ripped in half’ after genealogist finds no evidence of Native American ...

Writer ‘still in shock’ after a whistle-blowing organization showed him genealogical evidence that he wasn’t part Indigenous, as he originally assumed ...

Chattanooga city council seeks taxpayer assurances ahead of Northgate Mall TIF vote Chattanooga city council was set to vote on a resolution Teusday to approve a special tax district for Northgate ...

CHEROKEE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is opposing the Lumbee Tribe’s push for federal recognition. North Carolina’s Lumbee Tribe was part of a hearing on Capitol Hill on ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) --The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is considering extending federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, whose members have been denied access to federal ...

(The Center Square) – An Indian reservation that spans the U.S.-Canada border, including Ontario, Quebec and two upstate New York counties, is the focus of another human smuggling operation. So far, ...