Colin Denny, a deaf Navajo man, will be using both American Sign Language (ASL) and Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), which was once so common across the Great Plains that it was a “lingua ...

The Thunderbirds and other local civic groups raise millions for charity but critics say using Native American symbols is outdated and offensive.

It's also ironic that the adoption of Native symbols by civic organizations often dates back to a time when Native American children were being taken from reservations and sent to boarding schools ...

American Indian: Two labels we didn’t choose. We might have been called something else. Columbus wrote on October 11, 1492, of encountering handsome people who “are of the color of the ...

National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, D.C.) Notes "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Americans, opening at the National Museum of the ... "Officially Indian : Symbols That ...

The plan to install street signs in their language is meant to recognize the Native people who lived on these lands before European traders and settlers arrived, and their descendants who live here ...

Arts & Entertainment New director of Smithsonian’s American Indian museum welcomes multiple points of view ‘I see representations of Indigenous people as symbols or images, but they don’t ...

Tribal Delegates at National Congress of the American Indians in Spokane, Washington, 1955. National Congress of American Indians records, NMAI.AC.010 Folder 158 Photo by Sunnie F. Lancaster ...

The University of Illinois said on Friday it will send its "Chief Illiniwek" to the graveyard of sports mascots, bowing to pressure from those who said the war-whooping symbol it used for more ...