In the rolling hills of Bloomington, Indiana, lives a woman who has spent her 81 years collecting artifacts and artwork about the people from whom her grandparents told her she came. But the tribe of ...
Stacker explores American locations with indigenous roots. The name Alaska comes from the Aleut tribe and their word “alyeska.” When translated, it means "great land," drawing inspiration from the ...
“We say, ‘As salmon runs go, so go the Salmon People,'” said Joe Oatman, deputy program manager for the Nez Perce Tribe. “If salmon are suffering, we’re suffering. If salmon have broken homes, we have ...
The tribe says an 1868 treaty means the federal government has a duty to ensure its people have sufficient water on a reservation where thousands do not have running water. NAVAJO NATION, N.M. — Her ...
The Brothertown Indian Nation in Wisconsin is seeking federal recognition, hoping to follow a similar path to the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina. The tribe lost its federal recognition in 1839 when it ...