The glue that bound the nations together were the languages, culture and beliefs they held in common. Indigenous languages ...

THE PAMUNKEY INDIAN RESERVATION — They’ve survived in Eastern Virginia for more than 10,000 years, withstanding the arrival of European colonists and holding onto tribal land at a reservation that ...

As Karenne Wood, Member of the Monacan Tribal Council, Director of the Virginia Indian Heritage Program and emcee of the program noted, “We often in Virginia like to commemorate our heroes.

The Muscogee Creek Nation Supreme Court will soon decide whether or not the tribe’s Freedmen, also called the Black Creeks, will have full tribal citizenship or not.

Randy Sachs, a spokesperson for the Choctaw Nation, said in a statement to The Associated Press that the tribe set up an internal committee and asked tribal members for comment on the issue, but ...

Only one of those tribes, the Cherokee Nation, continues to fully grant the rights of citizenship. For descendants of people who were enslaved by tribal nations, Juneteenth is both a celebration of ...

In 2002, a U.S. district court ordered the tribe to reinstate their membership, however, today the descendants of those on the Seminole Nation’s Freedmen rolls are only allowed to vote and sit ...

DURANT, Okla. (KTEN) — Members of the Choctaw Nation will head to the polls next month for general and special tribal elections. Voters will decide races for Tribal Council Districts 4, 5, 7 ...

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma are still fighting for full citizenship in the ...

While the descendants of formerly enslaved Seminole Nation tribal members had previously been granted citizenship, in 2000 the tribe voted to restrict citizenship to those who had one-eighth ...