Ament’s other major life skill, as bassist for the Pearl Jam band he co-founded, also has served him well and provided him ...

Fifty years ago, one man triggered a legal fight that changed commercial fishing in the Great Lakes. Decades later, another legal battle is taking shape over the Great Lakes tribes indigenous rights.

CATAWBA NATION — Spring saw the Catawba Nation welcome a U.S. senator for a brief tour of its reservation near Rock Hill along with the tribe’s chief traveling to Washington to lobby on behalf of his ...

Sioux Falls, S.D. — Nine Native American tribes in South Dakota, North Dakota and Nebraska are suing the federal government in a bid to stop exploratory drilling for graphite near a sacred site in the ...

Jacobson House Native Art Center, 609 Chautauqua Avenue, has a staff of one. It has a twelve-member board of trustees and the same number trustees emeriti but just a single staffer — Gallery Assistant ...

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on announces criminal charges against three defendants implicated in a plot to submit fake electors claiming Donald Trump won Wisconsin in the 2020 general ...

First they found metates — ancient grinding stones. A human pinky bone, jawbone and ribs were next. Repeated discoveries of Native American remains and other artifacts on the site of a housing ...

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Solicitor General D. John Sauer seemed to struggle when pressed by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Wednesday on whether Native Americans should be considered birthright citizens. The question ...

Justice Neil Gorsuch pressed the government on its argument that the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause requires a child’s parents to be lawful permanent residents to obtain birthright citizenship.

WASHINGTON — In a moment that could take on new significance almost 150 years later, Omaha election official Charles Wilkins on April 5, 1880, refused to register John Elk to vote on the grounds that ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! When America’s founders were walking the cobblestones of Philadelphia in 1776 while ...