By migrating in huge herds, bison behave like a force of nature, engineering and intensifying waves of spring greenery that other grazers rely on.

The case has it all: white-centrism, the "school choice" debate, and the obscene way in which North Carolina is failing its students.

Patterned markings on some Southwestern pots in the U.S. were used as a way to symbolize color in black-and-white arts.

There are only five living Navajo Code Talkers: Peter MacDonald, Joe Vandever Sr., Samuel F. Sandoval, Thomas H. Begay and John Kinsel Sr. These are their stories.

An anthropologist who is also a singer-songwriter explores how Southwestern Native bands shake up the notion of “cowboys and Indians.”

Native American women and girls disappear at twice the per-capita rate of white Americans. Many still do not have answers as to what happened to their mothers, aunts, sisters, daughters. Some said they felt failed by authorities; they had been made to wait days by police to report a loved one’s disappearance or had their pleas for help ignored altogether.

"Each of us has a responsibility to build relationships with the indigenous people of the territories that we're occupying."

It’s an ongoing abuse that’s garnered far less outcry.

Yesterday was Laura Ingalls Wilder's 150th birthday. It's time to take a critical look at her work

By countering the racist fixations that have plagued stories of Indian culture, they hope to reverse the “invisibility” that many feel.

Widespread poverty and food deserts left Native Americans with the highest rate of diabetes in the country — but change is on the horizon

What is the oldest human-made structure in Detroit?

Deb Haaland could be the first Native American woman to head to Congress. She's one of a record number of Native American candidates running for office this year.

Brig. Gen. Stand Watie, commander of the 1st Indian Brigade of the Confederate Army of the Trans-Mississippi and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation in what is now Oklahoma ... had been fighting two civil wars—one against the United States and another against fellow Cherokees.

Court battles playing out over indigenous voting rights have the potential to tip tight races in states with large native populations and to influence matters of national importance.

The Taushiro tribe vanished into the jungles of the Amazon basin in Peru generations ago. Amadeo García García is now the last native speaker of their language.

"When can we eat the fish?” That’s what the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula wants to know. Officials in Michigan issue fish

Allegations of excessive police use of force against African-Americans have captured the nation's attention in recent years. But there's another group whose stories you're less likely to hear about. Native Americans are killed in police encounters at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet rarely do these deaths gain the national spotlight.

At stake in a case before the country’s Supreme Court: how much influence Canada’s indigenous groups will have over land and natural resources in their traditional territories.

Mr. Banks, a Chippewa, led often-violent insurrections to protest the treatment of Native Americans and to call attention to a history of injustices against them.