Native Americans

The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is repatriating the remains of two Native people, believed to be an adult and an adolescent, to the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians.

The Mills administration says it wants Congress to defer action on a bill from Rep. Jared Golden, and instead give the state time to negotiate its own compromise with Maine tribes.

A federal study of Native American boarding schools that sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 400 such schools and more than 50 associated burial sites.

The brig, called Industry, was hunting for sperm whales when it went down in a storm in 1836. It’s a unique find — in part because of the multiracial crew, said Monica Allen, director of public affairs for NOAA Research, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Media coverage around the death of 22-year-old Gabrielle Petito looks racist to those who note that murders and disappearances of Native Americans are mostly ignored.

Volunteers at the Bixby Memorial Library in Vergennes are nearing the end of a two year project to document all of the artifacts in the library’s…

The Wabanaki Confederacy is an alliance of native American nations that first came together centuries ago. They meet regularly to renew ties of...

A few hundred Native American high school students are trying out college life this week at Dartmouth. They’re learning about financial aid and setting…