While relationships between indigenous groups and protected areas have been extensively documented internationally, research on Native Americans and US National Parks is surprisingly sparse. Based on ...

American Indian culture is alive and thriving in modern galleries, powwows, museum exhibits, film festivals and restaurants.

Maybe a few people have noticed but a number of local government meetings now begin with a “Land Acknowledgment Statement.” In my native state of Idaho, the town in which I lived was adjacent to the ...

The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood, Sarcee, Peigan and Blackfoot among others - with ... the traffic was so heavy that an independent native police force was established to ensure ...

BLACKFOOT, Idaho — The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes have donated $100,000 to the Blackfoot Animal Shelter and Rescue. Although the project is still short of its total funding goal, this money will go ...

More than a century after Native Americans were displaced to create Glacier National Park, a Blackfeet-run tour company offers visitors a chance to see the park from the perspective of the people who ...

Among his friends, he counts members of other tribes: Onondaga, Sioux and Blackfoot. He said they feel the same as he does about the name, and he does not understand why Native Americans would ...

And he was right: The loss of the buffalo not only weakened Native communities, but also harmed biodiversity and the overall health of the land. But the Blackfoot people were not ready to say ...

Plains Indians had limited contact with the white ... The Cree, the Ojibways, the Saulteus, the Assiniboines and the Blackfoot lived largely nomadic lives, hunting the vast buffalo herds across ...