Larry Pemberton Jr. was sworn into office in the chamber of the Connecticut House of Representatives on Wednesday, becoming the first Native American elected to the state’s General Assembly. Pemberton ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. John Herrington once thought he'd be happy climbing rocks as a road surveyor for $4 an hour and ...

Denver will be the site of the United States' first-ever American Indian Cultural Embassy. Funding for the project was approved by Denver voters in the Vibrant Denver Bond measure. The vision is for ...

Kateri Tekakwitha, who will become the first American Indian to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church, was born in 1656 on the Mohawk River in what is now Auriesville, N.Y., the daughter of a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- When NASA's first American Indian astronaut embarks on his long-awaited journey into space in a few days, he will fly with eagle feathers, arrowheads, a handful of sacred ...