american indians

The U.S. Forest Service is proposing renaming Ohio’s only national forest at the request of nearly a dozen Native nations, including the Shawnee Tribe.

A UNESCO committee will decide whether to recognize eight Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks with the highest designation in the world for cultural and natural heritage.

The possible renaming of the forest comes on the heels of two national orders to address derogatory or offensive geographic names.

Growing up in Cleveland, Cherokee tribal member Nicole Doran said Chief Wahoo always made her uncomfortable. “I remember growing up and seeing this…

"Today we are asked whether the land these treaties promised remains an Indian reservation. ... Because Congress has not said otherwise, we hold the government to its word," wrote Justice Gorsuch.

A local advocate says the city's removal of its Christopher Columbus statue is the result of two forces converging: the current Black Lives Matter…

Before Europeans settled here, Ohio was home to many different indigenous cultures. From the Adena and Hopewell people, who constructed massive earthworks such as the Serpent Mound, to the Lenape or Delaware people, who were forced from their lands on the East Coast by expanding colonies.That history inspired a WOSU listener to ask Curious Cbus if the highways we drive in Ohio today follow the same path as American Indian trails from centuries ago.