Uncover the fascinating methods used by Native Americans to transport a massive 5-ton tree across challenging terrains over ...

Next week marks the anniversary of the 1763 attack on Fort Michilimackinac, part of Pontiac’s Rebellion.

Deaths from alcohol, drug overdoses, and suicide declined significantly across the United States for the first time since ...

Supreme Court told lower courts to revisit Native American voting cases after its ruling raised the bar for challenging maps.

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gutted a key provision of a voting rights law won’t affect South Dakota’s legislative ...

Native Nations Fought in the American Revolution to Protect Their Ancestral Lands. After the War, Settlers Seized Their ...

This 1804 depiction of Jane McCrea's death cemented a dramatized version of her killing in the public imagination. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In the century after Jane McCrea’s killing in ...

When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flooded Minneapolis, Shane Mantz dug his Choctaw Nation citizenship card out of a box on his dresser and slid it into his wallet. Some strangers mistake ...

Native American students who also identify as another race, such as Black, white or Asian, are counted as “two or more races,” not Native American.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Native American jingle dancers and ribbon dress dancers dance in front of the site where Alex Pretti was killed by federal agents, during a healing ceremony in Minneapolis, Minn. on Feb. 1, 2026.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer seemed to struggle when pressed by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Wednesday on whether Native Americans should be considered birthright citizens. The question ...