Over the last several years, an odd ritual known as a “land acknowledgment” has become the fashionable way to begin academic, arts and other elite events. Like a woke version of the “Pledge of ...

Last fall I was invited to teach a course on Native American history for a mainline Protestant church in a Chicago suburb. The invitation came from the congregation’s antiracism task force, which ...

In many parts of what is now the United States, communities have in recent years replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. Having spoken to Native Americans activists, leaders and community ...

Many organizations and institutions have taken steps to formally apologize and begin to “repair” their relationships with Native communities. This is a global movement in which entire countries, ...

The settlement of Cleveland, beginning in 1796, rapidly followed the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 near present-day Toledo, in which the U.S. military defeated a confederation of Indian tribes ...

If you work at a university, large corporation or left-leaning nonprofit or have attended certain performances, you have probably heard a land acknowledgment, a ritual that asks you to remember that ...

The Indian Land Capital Company helped the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians in Sonoma County, California, recover nearly 700 acres in 2016. (Photo by Oliver Dodd / CC BY 2.0) This is your first of three ...

In the United States, there are more than 500 separate tribal nations and 325 American Indian reservations. Many of those reservations are often small remnants of the tribe's ancestral land. In recent ...

The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California announced Wednesday that it has completed the purchase of more than 10,000 acres of ancestral land in the Sierra Nevada, marking the largest tribal land ...

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ANN ARBOR, MI — American pioneers John Allen and Elisha Rumsey stumbled upon lands already inhabited when they founded Ann Arbor 200 years ago, buying hundreds of acres from the federal government at ...