Events are planned in Central Washington and the region on Monday, which is recognized as a national day of awareness for ...

India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous country.

DNA obtained from the remains of people who inhabited Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon a millennium ago is helping ...

For the first time, a federally recognized Indigenous tribe in the U.S. has led research using DNA to show their ancestral ...

The Picuris Pueblo initiated the research to show their ties to Chaco Canyon, the center of an Ancestral Pueblo regional ...

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Lumbee Act, which recognized the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina but denied them federal benefits.

The state senator representing Glen Carbon, Edwardsville, and Madison County says she is working to stop a bill banning ...

DNA supports modern Picuris Pueblo accounts of ancestry going back more than 1,000 years to Chaco Canyon society.

With the economy facing challenges due to tariffs and ever-changing directives from Washington, D.C., the financial future of Oklahoma Native tribes is holding steady. For the Cherokee Nation, the ...

A Jan. 23, 2025 memo from President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Interior to fast-track federal recognition.

A Jan. 23, 2025 memo from President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Interior to fast-track federal recognition within ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is closing in around isolated communities, many of which lack official recognition by governments ...