A voting bloc that hasn't gotten as much national attention, Native voters are an influential constituency in several swing states, making them a group to watch in 2024.
He was the Native-led organization’s first executive director and helped to grow its work from a single program to many — all of which serve tribes and their needs.
Families visiting cemeteries on the White Earth reservation to honor and remember loved ones this Veterans Day might notice 12 new headstones. They were updated this summer because the names on the old ones were wrong. And this was a common problem for many serving in the Civil War who couldn't read or write — Native Americans, as well as non-native Americans.
Survivors of government-backed Native American boarding schools and their descendants are expected to share their experiences as U.S. officials make a final stop in Montana on their yearlong tour to confront the institutions that regularly abused students to assimilate them into white society.
Constructed of western red cedar, the mural is monumental in size — 17 feet high and 95 feet wide. The mural was installed on the south face of the Minneapolis American Indian Center almost 50 years ago. The center has been under construction since last winter.
Chef Sean Sherman received the Julia Child Award at the 9th Annual Julia Child Award Gala for his work as a chef, restaurateur, educator and advocate for Indigenous foodways.
The Mississippi River is “like the garden of Eden for Dakota people,” central to many of their creation stories, according to an organizer of the Owámni Falling Water Festival.
MPR News host Angela Davis talks with five new staff journalists about what they do. Meet the Morning Edition producers, our early education reporter and the new Native News team.
A community gathering Monday in Red Wing, Minn., celebrated the unveiling of a large-scale outdoor mural honoring the Dakota people and Chief Red Wing.