A controversial bill prohibiting Native American mascots in Illinois public schools is advancing through the state ...

The Shawnee are a Native American tribe composed of three federally-recognized tribes in the United States, all located in Oklahoma. But for the past three centuries, they were hounded from Ohio ...

His mother was Choctaw; his father, Kiowa. In 1975 my father and Sarah Dye, a Shawnee, became the first Native Americans to graduate from Dartmouth College’s medical school. My father was the ...

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, known as NABS, is losing critical grant funding from the ...

In 2021, Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes called for a federal investigation of all residential Native American boarding schools, including Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway, to uncover any children ...

Nez said that Native Americans often use past oppressions as ... has a great-great-grandmother who was Shawnee. But he said when relatives tried to research their roots more thoroughly, they ...

The University of Tennessee sits on the ancestral lands of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Cherokee Nation of ...

It’s kind of surreal,” Associate District Judge Lawrence Wheeler said after hearing of his selection for the 2025 Native American 40 under 40 class by the National Center for American Indian ...

Native American Rights Fund: The Native American Rights Fund ... IU partnered with the Quapaw Nation, the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee tribe “to ...

For instance, Shawnee guitarist Link Wray ... composed songs protesting the contemporary struggles of Native Americans. Johnny Cash—who had already achieved stardom with his number one country ...