The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country as they commune with friends and family Dennis Zotigh Beckham Barehand (Dine ...

As President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown continues, one community says they've felt unfairly targeted. This year, the Navajo Nation said dozens of Native Americans have been questioned or ...

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 ...

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is the only federally recognized tribe operating within Mississippi. Thirteen other federally recognized tribes have historical ties to Mississippi but are now ...

Native homelands have intertwined with the people for millennia and connect them to the land, the water and all living things. Amy Cordalis has watched the Klamath River reclaim its flow and says ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Jeremy Johnson worked for more than two years to help Penn Museum rethink its Native ...

A Native American woman was reportedly nearly turned over to federal immigration authorities after a wrongful ICE detainer was issued by an Iowa jail. Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of the Salt ...

The claim that ICE attempted to deport Jacobo was true, though authorities in Iowa said it was a "clerical error." The claim stemmed from a Nov. 12 story (archived ...

Reading is a complex cognitive skill that predicts career prospects and social mobility throughout our lifetimes. For newcomers to a country, success often depends on learning to read fluently in a ...

Victor Kuperman receives funding from NSERC, as Canada Research Chair in Psycholinguistics (Tier 2). Nadia Lana receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Olga Parshina ...

This National Native American Heritage Month, we celebrate Native Americans’ enduring contributions to our Nation’s greatness. From the earliest days of our Republic, our founding principles have ...