Editor's note:This story, originally published in 2014, was updated on May 5, 2021 with links tothe latest version of Aaron Carapella's map Finding an address on a map can be taken for granted in the ...

Native American tribes across the West are trying — and in more and more cases succeeding — in getting ancestral lands back.

Last week, the Yurok Tribe signed a historic agreement with the National Park Service, California State Parks and Save the Redwoods League to transfer a 125-acre property back to tribal ownership. The ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — It was the late University of Michigan professor Wilbert Hinsdale who compiled much of what is known about where Native Americans lived and traveled in the Ann Arbor area before white ...

Maps hold power. For millennia, the borders and place names represented on world maps signify who claims or possesses control of a geographic region. Through colonization, violent conquest or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark Rain Thom sits near a stairway in her home that holds a collection of traditional Native American items. Dark Rain said she ...

For members of dozens of Native American nations, crossing tribal lands often means crossing an international border. Christina Leza, associate professor of anthropology and Indigenous studies at ...