On Monday, July 14, the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma announced the death of Edmond Johnson, 95, on Facebook. The tribe described Johnson as being the last fluent speaker of the Caddo language.

“Ancient Beringians and all other Native Americans derive from the same source population,” co-author José Victor Moreno Mayar, Ph.D., of the University of Copenhagen told Inverse by email.

These eight discoveries about Native Americans have changed the way archaeologists and historians understand the history of the U.S.

DNA from an infant who died in Alaska some 11,500 years ago is giving scientists the best look yet at the genetics of the ancestors of today's native peoples of the Americas.

The American Journal of Human Genetics published the findings, which draw from the first population-level nuclear DNA analysis of a Native American group from ancient to modern times. "The finding ...

In 1997, the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe—a group of Native Americans based in Nevada near Spirit Cave—requested immediate repatriation of the remains under the Native American Graves ...

Ancient people who lived in North America about 5,000 years ago have living descendants today, new research suggests. Researchers reached that conclusion after comparing DNA from fossil remains ...

Native American history shouldn't be hidden. Various Field Museum display cases located in the Hall of Ancient Americas and the Hall of Northwest Coast and Arctic Peoples are seen covered on Jan ...

It is an ancient Native American trail that winds through Missouri, Arkansas, ... But these old foot trails are an important piece of mankind’s history. Dr. Gary Joiner, ...

Taylor Fairbanks, middle, one of the Native American Undergraduate Museum Fellows and August Mentch, right, the program support intern, at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul. (Angelina ...

An ancient site of carved boulders and rock formations in a Georgia forest that has long been sacred to Native Americans has been vandalized with paint and deep scratches, the United States Forest ...