Unlike in Europe, native rulers had little formal authority; they had to persuade others to follow their ideas.

The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country as they commune with friends and family Dennis Zotigh Beckham Barehand (Dine ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! When America’s founders were walking the cobblestones of Philadelphia in 1776 while ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A celebration of Indigenous identity and presence was front and center in downtown Sioux Falls Monday on Native Americans’ Day in South Dakota, and this meant a lively ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Although President Donald Trump on Thursday proclaimed Oct. 13 as Columbus Day, it is still officially Native Americans’ Day in South Dakota. Then Gov. George Mickelson led ...

Zitkála-á was born in 1876 on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Her English name was Gertrude Simmons Bonnin ...

Sometime around 1860, Spaniards attacked a Navajo settlement in New Mexico and captured a woman named Ated-bah-Hohzoni, meaning “happy girl.” As she hid behind a cliff with her one-year-old daughter, ...