As the newly-inaugurated Second Chief, Millie Thompson Williams will work with the principal chief and tribal council on maintaining culture and traditions. But Williams told KERA’s Sam Baker she ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — One of the nation’s best-known and most prosperous American Indian tribes will soon have a new public face: that of a woman, its first female tribal chief in almost 300 years. Lynn ...

TULANE COUNTY, Calif. -- Cousins Samirah Gibson Nieto and Aliya Gibson are members of the federally recognized Tule River Tribe. Samirah lives on the reservation in rural Southeast Tulare County in ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The time has come to remove the words “halfbreed” and “breed” from the names of creeks, lakes and other places around Montana, according to leaders of the Little Shell Tribe of ...

They've worked with everyone from National Geographic to Johnny Depp, but now a Oklahoma Eagle Breeding facility is in trouble. The Comanche tribe recently voted to stop funding the program. Sia, the ...

LAPWAI, Idaho — Redwing Two Moons hung on to the reins as the exotic horse raced around a small circular corral. Rarely ridden, the horse known as Yellowhand was refusing to take orders from the ...

A new glimmer of hope has opened up for a tribe of tool using chimpanzees after the last fertile female gave birth to a healthy baby girl. The tiny community of apes, famed for their remarkable use of ...