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Chevron Corp. will pay $45.5 million to resolve claims that it underpaid natural gas royalties to the government and Native Americans, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Members of one of America's oldest Protestant churches officially apologized Friday — for the first time — for massacring and displacing Native Americans 400 years ago.
A real estate agent showing a house got to the basement and found about 100 human bones in a corner. James Kenny, a forensic investigator with the Terrebonne Parish Coroner's Office, says the bones found Saturday were so old that dirt had saturated the marrow inside them. He says they probably are remains of Native Americans buried long before the house was built.
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a group of Native Americans who think the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins football team is offensive.
What do Native Americans wear on weekends? Hopeedee asked a series of white people.
Ellis Island is expanding its story of U.S. immigration history, including for the first time Native Americans and African slaves and adding modern arrivals.
This election year, Native Americans will have a rare opportunity to vote for a candidate who knows their issues well and has worked with them for years.
Two iconic pieces by turn-of-the-century artist Charles M. Russell — a painting depicting a stagecoach holdup and a bronze sculpture of two Native Americans on a buffalo hunt — have sold at an auction for more than $9 million.
Hundreds of young Native Americans gathering for a five-day conference here are being urged to become politically active because the American Indian vote could make a difference in this year's presidential election.
It has been 12 years since a group of American Indians sued the government, saying Washington had cheated them out of profits from land royalties since 1887.
Nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests.
Indian Gangs Grow, Bringing Fear and Violence to ReservationGang activity on Indian reservations is up significantly in recent years.
Editor's Note: Dedicated to the memory of my friend and mentor, Dr. Paula Gunn Allen. Thank you, Sandy 12/10/2009 10:17:57 AM It's 0817 on Human Rights Day.
N.Y. Protestant churches apologize to Native AmericansFour hundred years after their spiritual ancestors took part in the decimation and dislocation of Native Americans in New York, one of the nation's first Protestant churches held a "healing ceremony" to apologize.
U.S. offers to pay Native Americans $1.4 billion for lost funds - CNN.comThousands of American Indians would receive as much as $1,000 each if they accept a proposed $1.4 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit over government mismanagement of tribal lands. The suit, filed in 1996, accused the U.S.
A day to give thanks? The real story of the "first Thanksgiving"--and the history of conquest and resistance that followed after it.THE THANKSGIVING myth is intertwined with this country's origin myth.
U.K. cops arrest people just for the DNAMore than three-quarters of young black men aged between 18 and 35 are on the system, the report said.
Cooking the History Books: The Thanksgiving MassacreThanksgiving is a holiday where families gather to share stories, football games are watched on television and a big feast is served. It is also the time of the month when people talk about Native Americans.
Thanksgiving And The American HolocaustRobert Jensen Offers His Annual Observation On Thanksgiving And The American Holocaust. This Is The Holocaust In Which We Did Our Darnedest To Exterminate The Indigenous Population Of The United States. Jensen Has Learned To Stop Hating And Be Afraid.
Another apology. This time for kids shipped from Britain to coloniesLovely cartoon. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a ... apology Monday to ... British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life, only to suffer abuse and neglect thousands of miles from home. At a ceremony ...
Obama promises Native Americans place on agendaPresident Barack Obama is telling Native American tribal leaders he is determined to reverse the federal government's history of marginalizing and ignoring the plight of Indian nations.
Attack of the Stereotypes! Native Americans in FantasyAs Columbus Day approaches, you'll hear people talk endlessly about the Italian mapmaker and his discovery of America. Of course, such talk ignores the fact that people had been living here in thriving civilizations for thousands of years before he arrived.
A darker side of Columbus emerges in US classroomsTAMPA, Fla. – Jeffrey Kolowith's kindergarten students read a poem about Christopher Columbus, take a journey to the New World on three paper ships and place the explorer's picture on a timeline through history.
It all depends on what you mean by discover and who you're talking about. To those identified by the term Native Americans he did not, how could he discover where they were living?
Shawnee Lookout May Be Largest Continuously Occupied Hilltop Native American Site In United StatesThe discoveries continue to surprise for a team of University of Cincinnati students digging in Ohio's Shawnee Lookout Park, with a major new mound being located and a rare kiln used to fire pottery excavated in recent weeks, along with even more evidence emerging to support the …
Utah to turn over fabled canyon to archaeologistsState authorities are transferring control of a remote canyon filled with prehistoric ruins to the University of Utah for a permanent research installation.
Forensic Evidence Creates New Insight into Custer's Last StandHistory Publishing company has set January 2, 2010 as the publishing date for Custer Survivor which will bring to the reader, new insight into the battle at the Little Big Horn.
August 6th 1945. One of the darkest hours in human history. On this date the United States dropped a Nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan killing about 100,000 people instantly. This was followed a couple of days later by dropping another nuclear bomb, this time on Nagasaki.
The Northwest salmon debateAmid the drumbeat of litigation that surrounds Columbia River salmon and the ever-present debate over dam-breaching, it's easy to miss one remarkable achievement: We now have a salmon protection strategy that most of the region agrees on. That has never happened before.
Nazune Menka is a graduate student in environmental science who this past spring semester was participating in the Native American Political Leadership Program at George Washington University.
Native Americans claim right to cross freely into CanadaDozens of Native Americans from both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border gathered this afternoon in Niagara Falls to draw attention to tribal rights under stricter crossing regulations enacted June 1.
The Ainu and the Kennewick ManThe Kennewick Man, also sometimes referred to as the Richland Man, is a skeleton which was accidentally found at the Lake Wahulla section of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington on July 28, 1996.
Stone Age hunting traps found deep in Great LakesNearly 10,000 years ago, 50 metres beneath the surface of what is now North America's Lake Huron, hunters set an ambush. Caribou were herded through stone corridors towards archers that lay waiting behind low parapets.
Ancient Underwater Camps, Caribou Traps in Great Lake?Under North America's second largest lake, robot-assisted archaeologists may have discovered prehistoric American camps and long "drive lanes" built to guide caribou to their deaths, a new study says (caribou pictures and facts).
Epic carving on fossil bone found in FloridaIn what a top Florida anthropologist is calling "the oldest, most spectacular and rare work of art in the Americas," an amateur Vero Beach fossil hunter has found an ancient bone etched with a clear image of a walking mammoth or mastodon.
Leonard Peitier - Incident at OglalaURGENT ALERT! Leonard Peltier's Safety in Jeopardy! January 20, 2009 To LP Supporters,
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