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The Washington Redskins were the subject of controversy for years due to their supposedly offensive name. And yet, the controversy was not primarily driven by outrage from Native Americans, but ...

Indigenous people have fought throughout modern history to gain, and defend, the dual citizenship rights that determine access to government benefits and the right to vote.

NEW YORK (AP) — Armed with hundreds of thousands of dollars from Newman’s Own Foundation and Ozempic creator Novo Nordisk, young Native Americans are leading the fight against persistently high ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flooded Minneapolis, Shane Mantz dug his Choctaw Nation citizenship card out of a box on his dresser and slid it into his wallet. Some ...

Depending on how much you know about the constitution, you may be surprised to learn that Ben Franklin and the founding fathers modeled the United States constitution on the constitution of the ...

The earliest dice identified in the study date to 12,800–12,200 years ago ...

Native Americans had dice and games of probability 12,000 years ago, according to a new study. That’s far earlier than the ...

New research shows that Native Americans were making dice for gaming thousands of years before anyone else in the world.