The jail cell was cold, damp and echoey. But sleeping in the old prison buildings of Alcatraz Island was the first time Robert Free Galvan had a sense of true liberty. In 1969, Galvan and other ...

What the world’s Indigenous Catholics don’t want to lose with the death of the first pontiff from the Southern Hemisphere: ...

Year of North Carolina'. In an effort to celebrate the state's character, lawmakers decided to celebrate all existing state symbols, instead of introducing new ones this year. State symbols must be ...

The U.S. Navy shared this photo of a Columbus native serving aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington.

A day after President Trump said he wants to reopen the nearly century-old prison as a symbol of law and order, tourists roaming the decayed historic grounds struggled to grasp the logic.

When Alf Monge, a former U.S. Army Cryptographer who was born in Norway and broke a Japanese code during WWII, looked at the ...

Deacon Juan Pérez Gómez helps tend to his small Tsotsil Catholic community in Mexico. He was ordained a deacon in 2022, ...

we present excerpts of interviews we’ve conducted with Jane Fonda; Louise Erdrich; Agustín Fuentes (about human evolution and aggression); Elizabeth S. Anderson (about the dictatorship of the ...

President Donald Trump ordered a civil-rights probe to defend a Long Island school district that's resisting a NY order to drop Native American mascots.

The eastern white pine tree is revered as the “tree of peace” by the Iroquois Confederacy, which includes the Oneida Nation ...

A New York City suburb has become the latest flashpoint in the enduring debate over the place of Indigenous imagery in American sports ...

For generations, Native Americans prized dentalium or tusk shells as currency, status symbols and sacred objects. Harvested ...