Native Americans

In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 image made from video provided by the Survival Media Agency, a teenager wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, center left, stands in front of an elderly Native American singing and playing a drum in Washington.

More Details And A Longer Video Emerge In CovCath Incident In D.C.

Bill Rinehart

Updated: Sunday, 8:32 p.m. Students from a northern Kentucky high school are under fire after video of an interaction with an indigenous person near the...

Houses on the Navajo Nation sit near sandstone cliffs north of Many Farms, Ariz. New Census Bureau estimates show a low rate of high-speed Internet access among Native Americans who live on tribal land.

News Partners

Native Americans On Tribal Land Are 'The Least Connected' To High-Speed Internet

Hansi Lo Wang

New Census Bureau estimates underscore the digital divide facing Native Americans living on reservations or other American Indian land in the U.S.

People listen to speakers raising awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women at a rally at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle prior to the Women's March on January 20. A new report examines missing and murdered Indigenous women in cities, not on reservations, and found local law enforcement agencies often do not adequately track such crimes.

News Partners

Police In Many U.S. Cities Fail To Track Murdered, Missing Indigenous Women

Camila Domonoske

Seattle-based researchers examined the disappearances and murders of Native American women in 71 U.S. cities. They found information on 506 documented cases 鈥� and huge, troubling gaps in the data.

Artist and former Akron resident Peter Toth created Chief Rotaynah, the 36-foot statue of a Native American, that will be removed from its home near a school in Akron.

WKSU Stories

Native American Statue Will Be Removed from Akron School

Tyler Thompson

Akron Public Schools is saying farewell to a 30-year-old wooden Native American statue. Chief Rotaynah will be removed from its home near Judith A....

Wild rice grows along the edges of the Kakagon River in Wisconsin.

News Partners

Climate Change Threatens Midwest's Wild Rice, A Staple For Native Americans

Rebecca Hersher

When harvests are bad, Native Americans in the region may go without rice for the year. And there have been a lot of bad years lately, as climate change causes more frequent and severe rainstorms.

Tribal leaders worry that they will be left out of discussions surrounding major decisions affecting tribes and their land, like that of the Navajo Nation which covers parts of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.

News Partners

Tribal Leaders: Infrastructure Bill Should Include Indian Country Priorities

Adrienne St. Clair

"Tribal infrastructure is American infrastructure," the president of the National Congress of American Indians said in response to Trump's proposal for investing in U.S. infrastructure.

All Sides with Amy Juravich

Cleveland Indians To Remove Chief Wahoo

The Cleveland Indians have announced they will be removing Chief Wahoo, their controversial logo, from their uniforms beginning in 2019. The logo has been鈥�

News

Safe Water Remains Out Of Reach For Canada's First Nations

Elizabeth Miller

At the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve, about 10 men are gathered in a classroom in the Haudenosaunee community center. The older men are teaching鈥�

News

Curious Cbus: Why Does Ohio Have So Many Townships Named Paint?

Deepti Hossain

This story is part of the Curious Cbus project. You ask the questions, you vote for one of the questions and we answer.Listener Conor Morris must have鈥�

The spiral tail of Serpent Mound lit with luminary candles for the Winter Solstice.

WVXU Stories

Friends Group Upset About Canceled Winter Solstice Event At Serpent Mound

Tana Weingartner

A group that supports the Serpent Mound historical site in Adams County is upset with the decision to cancel a popular Winter Solstice event.

星空无限传媒

Native Americans