If you’ve spent any time in the South or Midwest, you’ve probably heard a few people claim to have Native American ancestry (“Do you see these eyebrows? This bone structure?”) And, chances are, if ...

I grew up in a little Norwegian fishing community that was absorbed into Seattle proper. Just about every family that wasn’t pure Norwegian liked to boast about having an Indian princess in their ...

Daedalus, Vol. 147, No. 2, Unfolding Futures: Indigenous Ways of Knowing for the Twenty-First Century (Spring 2018), pp. 60-69 (10 pages) Genetic ancestry tests have gained in popularity across the ...

Here’s another piece of legislation to watch — HR 1011 by Rep. Marcus Richmond and others to “recognize the Cherokee Nation West and re-establish the relationship between the people of the Cherokee ...

This article was published in partnership with the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet, and the Indigenous Investigative Collective, a project of the Native American Journalists ...

For those who believe they have American Indian ancestry, there may be another route to being recognized as such. Pioneered by the Arkansas State Society, Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars ...

A hearing in D.C. has highlighted a rift between N.C. senators and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians over the federal ...