Blakeslee is a semi-retired anthropologist from Wichita State University. He’s polite, soft-spoken most of the time, and able ...

For the study, researchers sequenced the DNA of 13 present-day members of the tribe. They compared that genetic material to ...

The National Congress of American Indians and Native American Rights Fund headed to the United Nations headquarters to advocate for free, prior and informed consent — a framework outlined in the Decla ...

Niko DeRoin-Silva has been in the powwow arena since she could walk. She was too young to remember that time, but relatives of hers speak about it fondly. Growing up in northern California, away from ...

What the world’s Indigenous Catholics don’t want to lose with the death of the first pontiff from the Southern Hemisphere: ...

Revised textbooks on the five Native American tribes that share geography ... and books focusing on each of the five tribes — including an all-new book on the history and culture of the Sisseton ...

In prayer walks, self-defense classes, marches and speeches at state capitols, they are pushing for better cooperation among ...

Two Indigenous advocates are calling on President Donald Trump to reassemble a federal commission focused on a national ...

A "groundbreaking" DNA analysis of a small Pueblo tribe in New Mexico supports what their oral tradition ... Western ...

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

A judge has ruled that the state of New Mexico must commission a remedial plan for K-12 education because the system hasn't ...

DNA from ancient and present-day members of Picuris Pueblo confirm oral histories linking the tribe to the famed Chaco Canyon ...