Native Americans

'The Pioneers' Dives Deep Into Lives Of Northwest Territory Settlers

7:40am May 08, 2019

by Michael Schaub

Like David McCullough's other books, this one succeeds because of the author's strength as a storyteller; it reads like a novel and is packed with information drawn from painstaking research.

Carolyn DeFord poses with the missing persons poster for her mother, Leona Kinsey, who went missing in October 1999.

Arts

'It Surfaces With The Same Rawness': A Daughter Remembers Her Mother's Disappearance

5:10am March 29, 2019

Carolyn DeFord, a member of the Puyallup tribe, was 26 when her mother suddenly vanished. At StoryCorps, she remembers what life has been like having never learned what happened.

The view of the Grand Canyon from the top floor of Desert View Watchtower on the southeastern rim. Eleven tribes have traditional ties to the Grand Canyon.

National

Overcoming A 'Long, Bitter Relationship,' Grand Canyon And Tribes Mark Centennial

8:02am February 24, 2019

by Laurel Morales

When the Grand Canyon became a national park 100 years ago, native tribes who lived in the canyon were pushed aside. Now the park service is working with them to design a new cultural heritage site.

Memorial to the Wounded Knee Massacre that occurred on Dec. 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota.

'The Heartbeat Of Wounded Knee' Aims To Usher In A New Narrative For Native Americans

3:31pm January 25, 2019

by Tom Bowman

Author David Treuer calls his new book a "counternarrative" to Dee Brown's 1970 classic. "I have tried to catch us not in the act of dying but, rather, in the radical act of living," he writes.

Verlon Jose, vice chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation, says President Trump's proposed wall would devastate his community.

Native American Leader: 'A Wall Is Not The Answer'

3:08pm January 23, 2019

Verlon Jose, vice chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation, says President Trump's proposed border wall would cut through the reservation, with negative impacts.

Queue Listen Now

Houses on the Navajo Nation sit near sandstone cliffs north of Many Farms, Ariz. New Census Bureau estimates show a low rate of high-speed internet access among Native Americans who live on tribal land.

National

Native Americans On Tribal Land Are 'The Least Connected' To High-Speed Internet

9:06pm December 06, 2018

by Hansi Lo Wang

New Census Bureau estimates underscore the digital divide facing Native Americans living on reservations or other American Indian land in the U.S.

People listen to speakers raising awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women at a rally at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle prior to the Women's March on January 20. A new report examines missing and murdered Indigenous women in cities, not on rese

National

Police In Many U.S. Cities Fail To Track Murdered, Missing Indigenous Women

5:29pm November 15, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

Seattle-based researchers examined the disappearances and murders of Native American women in 71 U.S. cities. They found information on 506 documented cases — and huge, troubling gaps in the data.

Residential roads with no street name or number signs, such as this one in Belcourt, N.D., are common on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. Under recently tightened state rules, voters in North Dakota are required to present identification with a str

Politics & Government

Judge Rules Native Americans in North Dakota Must Comply With Voter ID Law

2:49pm November 02, 2018

by Ruben Kimmelman

The judge said allegations made by Native Americans seeking a waiver from the law gave the court "great cause of concern." But he was not willing to change election laws at the 11th hour.

This June, instructions were posted at an early voting precinct in Bismarck, N.D. In that primary election, tribal IDs that did not show residential addresses were accepted as voter ID. But those same IDs will not be accepted in the general election.

Many Native IDs Won't Be Accepted At North Dakota Polling Places

4:02pm October 13, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

The Supreme Court has upheld a state law requiring voters' IDs to have street addresses, which many reservations do not use. Native American groups are now scrambling to prepare for Election Day.

Mesquite flour stirred into butter has a unique sweet flavor, and is especially good on homemade bread.

Arts

Texas Baker Rekindles Interest In The Mysterious Mesquite Bean

1:55pm October 04, 2018

by Karen Hudes

When an Austin neuroscientist-turned-baker dove deeply into a box of Peruvian mesquite flour on a lark, he found a forgotten, flavorful and nutritious bean that was once vital to Native Americans.