This week, we explore one of America’s great demographic mysteries: Why did the 2020 Census show the American Indian and Alaska Native population soaring by 85 percent?

It's Native American Heritage Day. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Ned Blackhawk, a professor of History and American Studies at Yale, about the history of the day and what it means to observe it.

A new study found that the gap in life expectancy between American Indians and Alaska Natives and the national average was ...

The voices, contributions, and knowledge of Native Americans in the United States can no longer be ignored. As we navigate the upcoming election cycle, we must work together to empower Indigenous ...

Trump’s education secretary threatens to pull funding from NY over its Native American mascot ban Indigenous residents on Long Island have called Massapequa’s mascot problematic as it depicts ...

Native American food is not mainstream for a variety of reasons. Sherman pointed to the idea of "manifest destiny," or the 19th-century belief that the U.S. was "destined" by God to expand across ...

The poll only surveyed 229 self-identified Native Americans, a sample size that she said is too small for an accurate reading, and none of the jurisdictions in the poll were on tribal lands.