American Indians

The park’s indigenous skills day is a celebration — with live demonstrations — of what is known about the people known as the Fremont Indians.

Preliminary estimates show that the life expectancy of newborns is still declining in the U.S., from 77 in 2020 to 76 last year. A main driver is COVID-19. However, life expectancy decreased much more for American Indians and Alaskan Natives, who had a life expectancy of 65 last year.

Over the next year, History Colorado, a nonprofit and an agency under the state’s department of higher education, will investigate the experiences, abuse and deaths of students at the former Fort Lewis Indian School near Durango.

The first volume in the Interior's investigative report shows that the United States operated or supported 408 boarding schools in 37 states between 1819 and 1969, including 127 in the Mountain West.

There’s a false narrative that Native Americans are genetically predisposed to becoming addicted to alcohol. New research shows that simply believing it can be harmful.

The 2020 census count is coming, and it will determine where funding goes for things like schools, emergency services and health care. For the last…

Representatives from Native American tribes are in McCall this week to talk about how they can adapt to climate change. Donald Sampson says Native…

This interview was originally broadcast in September, 2014The rugged coastline of the Pacific Northwest is dotted with historic cities and sea ports. But…

It took Edward Curtis just a few years after arriving in the small town of Seattle in 1887 to establish a reputation as one of its finest portrait…

The mysterious Clovis culture, which appeared in North America about 13,000 years ago, appears to be the forerunner of Native Americans throughout the Americas, a study of DNA evidence suggests. Remains from an infant buried more than 12,000 years ago at a Clovis site in modern Montana held the genetic key.