Photographer Craig Varjabedian is working with indigenous people around New Mexico to celebrate their past and their culture with the Native Light Photo Collaboration Project. When you look at the ...

Oklahoma law will soon confer on Native American students the right to wear traditional regalia during graduation ceremonies. The tribal regalia bill, SB 429, vests students enrolled in a public ...

Last month, Ruth Buffalo made history when she became the first Native American Democrat woman elected to the North Dakota Legislature. Her win was major for another reason, too: She defeated former ...

Graduation season is typically a time for celebrating the success of students making it through their education programs. For some Indigenous students, part of that celebration includes having tribal ...

Powwow regalia are works of art — some are handmade by the people wearing them and others have them commissioned for their use. But what happens if someone doesn't have access to them? That's where ...

In a fluorescent-lit bingo hall in the heart of Motahkomikuk, the Passamaquoddy reservation also known as Indian Township, Tomah waited Sunday for community days to begin. The 9-year-old is one of ...

Nyché Andrew at her high school graduation from Service High School in Anchorage, Alaska. Credit: Brian Adams for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

Nyché Andrew, who is Yup’ik and Iñupiaq, gives the land acknowledgement, which asks the audience to think about those who first lived, and still live, on the land, at her graduation from Service High ...

Washington State Rep. Debra Lekanoff (D), who is the first Native American woman to ever be elected to the state’s House of Representatives, was sworn into office wearing traditional regalia this week ...