As a baby, Elisa Fernández Sánchez’ mother would place her into the bow of the canoe and glide across the murky waters of the ...

Some plays are remembered for the air that fills the stage and audience seats. Though 50 years have passed since the Korean ...

The distinction for the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina, signed into law on Thursday, opens access to federal support and defies challenges from other tribes over their legitimacy. By Rick Rojas ...

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 ...

American Marines and soldiers are once again rucking through the Panamanian jungle, for the first time in more than two decades. The U.S. military, along with Panamanian security forces, revived ...

"Green Hell" revived as Trump shifts the military’s focus to Latin America. For the first time in more than two decades, the Pentagon has begun sending conventional ground forces to Panama to train in ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. More than 17,000 acres of ancestral lands were returned to the Tule River Indian Tribe, part of a state effort to ...

From the depths of Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public ...

In the U.S., there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes and Alaska Native entities, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior. As for Louisiana, the state is home to more ...