The Wampanoag are a Native American tribe that has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for over 10,000 years. Jenaya Perry, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, competes ...

Annawon Weeden cuts an imposing figure, arriving at my classroom wearing a black T-shirt that says “Party Like It’s 1491,” a ...

Prior to the arrival of the first European settlers early in the 17th Century, an estimated 50 million Native Americans tilled the land in the area that became the United States, gathered food in the ...

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), signed in 1990, mandates this process. Mercyhurst University, among others, is actively working to repatriate remains and artifacts ...

For many Native American tribes, economic self-sufficiency has long been a priority. In the absence of traditional revenue streams, tribal governments have explored and embraced industries that ...

The Wampanoag were the Native American tribe that joined the Pilgrims for the “First Thanksgiving,” yet much of the common lore about that story is inaccurate. For example, the Wampanoag weren’t ...