Attendees of the 2025 Native American Summit, organized by the Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative, were draped in regalia and leading a drum ceremony for the first time in an Illinois ...

Tai Leclare and experts explore Native American identity. What’s the deal with “Pretendians”? Tai Leclare and experts dissect what it really means to be Native—whether it’s blood ...

The hunt for unmarked graves of Native children isn’t happening just at Red Cloud, now called Maȟpíya Lúta. It’s one of more than 400 Indian boarding schools across the country that were ...

For this Native American Heritage month, photojournalist Joseph Huerta and Facing Race reporter Sharon Yoo interviewed Indigenous folks about their identity.

To be meaningful, a conversation about Native American heritage must take place at this level of granularity, Schuettpelz writes, because there are 347 recognized tribes in the contiguous United ...

Writer Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz says that she's always been a data nerd. So when she started writing about Native American identity, that's where she turned. CARRIE LOWRY SCHUETTPELZ: And so I ...

Growing up in Iowa as an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, University of Iowa professor Carrie Schuettpelz has spent her life navigating what it truly means to be Native American.