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The Washington Redskins have announced the team will be dropping its moniker, which is widely considered a slur against Native Americans. The head coach and team owner are developing a new name.
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"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.
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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…
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In some communities, Native American women are kidnapped and killed at a rate 10 times higher than the national average. Now, some are teaching each other to fight back.
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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.
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A recent effort to preserve a historic Native American earthwork in Butler County points to a broader effort to recognize and honor Ohio's early mound...
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A new report from DigDeep and the U.S. Water Alliance found race is the strongest predictor of water and sanitation access. This has implications for public health.
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Former Obama adviser Kimberly Teehee is being appointed as the tribe's first delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. The position is outlined in an 1835 treaty but had never been filled.
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Caitlin McGurk lives in Clintonville. Every day on her way into work, she passes a sign on High Street in the Old North: "Red Men Sioux Tribe No. 128.""I…
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Nearly 100,000 Native Americans live in Ohio, 28% of them in Greater Cleveland. The community includes people from many tribes who arrived here generations ago after the Indian Relocation Act of 1956 encouraged Native Americans to move from reservations to urban areas.