Last week, for only the fourth time in its nearly 70-year history, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater company began its new season under the leadership of a different Artistic Director: Alicia ...

It’s estimated that around 7 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, a number that’s expected to double by 2060. But researchers have found that some of the highest rates of cognitive impairment ...

ATMORE, Ala. (WALA) - Color, culture and tradition collided at the 53rd annual Poarch Creek Indian Pow Wow, drawing thousands to the reservation in Atmore for a celebration of Native American heritage ...

It’s a sunny spring morning as Nakai Clearwater Northup stands amid white pine trees, near a river, surveying the land. Looking at his Narragansett homelands in southern Rhode Island, he says hunting ...

A Native American woman was reportedly nearly turned over to federal immigration authorities after a wrongful ICE detainer was issued by an Iowa jail. Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of the Salt ...

Water is life, especially in the desert. The Indigenous people of the area today known as Southern Nevada know this. The Las Vegas Wash, for example, was once an important trading ground for the ...

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Asked to list stereotypes they had heard about themselves or other Native Americans, more than 200 middle school-age citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized nation ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The National Congress of American Indians strongly condemned on Saturday a Pentagon review that decided against revoking medals awarded to U.S. soldiers at the 1890 ...

In a pastoral campground south of Lansing, many attendees at the Michigan Hoop Dance Retreat were hooping as if their hair was on fire. Then, Missy Cooke’s hair caught fire. Dancing with a torch in ...

Native youth in Sacramento use powwow dances like jingle as cultural healing tools. Traditional practices address trauma and mental illness amid limited Native therapists. Culturally rooted events ...