Once the costumes are copyrighted, which can be done online for $40, the Indians can either sue people who sell photos of them or try to negotiate licensing fees with photographers either before ...

The 44th Annual West Indian American Day Carnival roars into Crown Heights today for five days of steel bands, spicy food and elaborate costumes. The festivities are a hybrid of the French Mardi Gr… ...

There are no set rules for what a Mardi Gras Indian costume needs, at least not in Lafayette. Most men work alone on their outfits, unsure of what to expect each year. "The designing is different ...

In neighborhoods throughout New Orleans, black men don Indian costumes they worked on all year -- suits they carefully stitch and bead by hand. Like much of the city, the "Big Chiefs" have mixed ...

It's a point underscored in a BuzzFeed video where young Native Americans try on "Indian" Halloween costumes and share their candid reactions. The costumes have names like "Indian Brave," "Chief ...

When the pallbearers carrying Larry Bannock’s casket came down the steps from New Orleans’s City of Love Church last Saturday, 15 Mardi Gras Indians, their many-feathered costumes shimmering ...

Armstrong said back in the ‘60s, Lafayette neighborhoods might have their own style of Mardi Gras Indian costumes, and groups of five to 20 men might make their costumes and form a group.

A vintage illustration of the Boston Tea Party on Dec. 16, 1773. American colonists, including some who appropriated American Indian costume for the protest, dumped chests of British tea into the ...