[node:summary]Jane Johnson Schoolcraft, Ojibwe, is known as the first American Indian writer, as well as the first U.S. indigenous poet. “The first known American Indian literary writer, the first ...

Hans Walker Jr., Mandan, was among the first American Indians to become a licensed lawyer in 1960. He walked on December 20. Hans C. Walker Jr., one of the first Native American lawyers to lead the ...

The California Second District Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that a 6-year-old Choctaw girl known as “Lexi,” will be staying in Utah with family. On Friday, the California Second District Court ...

Garriott, Sicangu Lakota, served for three years in the Biden Administration’s Department of Interior as the first assistant ...

New Mexico Legislature has one of largest female majorities in the country, first majority female legislature for the state ...

Montana state legislative session underway, the state’s American Indian Caucus lays out issues of importance, major focus on ...

The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has used goats to manage brush on its lands that it fears could lead to wildfires ...

The film, by first time Secwépemc filmmaker NoiseCat and Toronto journalist Emily Kassie, is nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best documentary feature at the Oscars ...

The line for the "Make America Great Again Victory Rally" wrapped around several blocks in the Penn Quarter neighborhood on ...

Tribe’s focus will be restoration, preservation and cultural uses like first foods for the approximately 2,000-acre site at ...

Native leaders, journalists and those impacted by the 1975 shootout on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that led ...

Indian Health Service doctors are reporting a sharp rise this winter in infectious diseases, including pneumonia, RSV and ...