The Declaration of Independence promised equality while denying power to Native Americans. Deb Haaland and Sharice Davids are ...

A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...

Chief Standing Bear, the courageous Ponca leader whose 19th century defense of Native American equality made him a civil rights hero, was honored Wednesday with a statue in the US Capitol. Some 140 ...

Native people inhabited the land that would become the United States long before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But it wasn’t until 1924, when Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, ...

Long after the founding, many ordinary Americans saw the Revolution as ongoing—an unfinished fight for freedom and equality.

This year, many Americans might be feeling less patriotic than usual on the Fourth of July. During a time usually marked by fireworks, parades, and barbecues, people across the country are grappling ...

November is National Native American Heritage Month in the US. This should be an opportunity for schools to discuss their country’s colonial history. But the picture that students receive is often ...

According to the arcane way California counts its students, students who say they are Hispanic and Indigenous get counted as solely Hispanic.

An exhibition of works by contemporary Native American artists is meant to show ties between ancestors, teachings, values, stories, the future and one another. By Jane L. Levere This article is part ...