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Among Ben Nighthorse Campbell's accomplishments was helping sponsor legislation upgrading the Great Sand Dunes National ...

For advocates, dehumanization of indigenous people is at the root of the issue. More than a decade ago, Sundance, a member of the Muscogee tribe, led a successful effort to change the mascot of a high ...

It’s a sunny spring morning as Nakai Clearwater Northup stands amid white pine trees, near a river, surveying the land. Looking at his Narragansett homelands in southern Rhode Island, he says hunting ...

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There's a history of forced experimentation on Native communities. Navajo medicine man Timothy Lewis starts each day with a corn pollen seed offering to the creator. He prays for his family and the ...