Kevin Gover, 61, is the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. A member of the Pawnee tribe, he was born in Oklahoma.

The letter says the committee made a good-faith effort to phase out the use of human imagery or the Indian head silhouette as the school logo. Some consider such American Indian logos offensive.

Sanjena Sathian ’13, author of Gold Diggers, talks with Serena Puang ’23 and Suraj Singareddy ’25 about growing up Indian-American in Atlanta’s suburbs, her undergraduate experience, and working in ...

Dartmouth College has removed Susan Taffe Reed as new director of its Native American Program after tribal officials and alumni accused her of misrepresenting herself as an American Indian.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Oregon resident and tribal citizen Charles F. “Chuck” Sams III to head the National Park Service. If confirmed by the Senate, Sams would be the first ...

Front and back view of an American one-cent coin, a 1902 Indian Head penny. The front (left) features a profile of a feather-crowned Native American, while the reverse side features a wheat wreath ...

The Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center received more than $3 million Friday for its early childhood services. The money is part of a five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health ...

North Dakota highway signs that portray a silhouette of a Native American head are being switched out for ones featuring the state's shape, but it could take years before the signs that have ...

The Senate on Monday confirmed New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland as interior secretary, making her the first Native American to lead a Cabinet department and the first to lead the federal agency that ...

TEXARKANA — It seems like a hard thing to lose: a stately, 30-foot, wooden American Indian head capped by an elaborate feathered headdress, his twin, shoulder-length plaits of hair framing a ...