Smithsonian Magazine

How Native Americans Are Celebrating the Holiday Season With Festive Meals, Public Service and Cherished Traditions

The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country ...
Yahoo

Here's What It Means To Be 'Two-Spirit,' According To Native People

Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits hosts their annual Two-Spirit powwow for queer indigenous people in San Francisco, California. You may have heard the term “Two-Spirit”tossed around without ...
WMUR

What Indigenous Peoples' Day means to Native Americans

Related video above: The legacy of Sacheen LittlefeatherFor centuries, the U.S. celebrated Christopher Columbus as the intrepid explorer who discovered the Americas — a symbol of the American ideals ...
Yahoo

For some Native Americans, casting a ballot means an 'absurd' trip to the polling site

WASHINGTON – Priscilla Weaver plans to set up a voter registration table next month at the flea market on the Shiprock reservation in New Mexico. She wants to make sure more Native American voters ...
AZ Central

Getting Native voters means organizing and removing barriers, leaders say

When Peggy Flanagan, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, ran for a seat on the Minneapolis public school board in 2005, a voter asked her if she would only work for Native kids in the district ...
Yakima Herald-Republic

Native American comedian Tatanka Means to appear at Heritage University

Native American actor and comedian Tatanka Means will make an appearance at Heritage University on Wednesday, Nov. 8. Means, of Oglala Lakota, Omaha and Yankton Dakota and Diné descent, is bringing ...