I grew up in a little Norwegian fishing community that was absorbed into Seattle proper. Just about every family that wasn’t pure Norwegian liked to boast about having an Indian princess in their ...

Residents of Coos, Curry and Douglas counties that believe they have Cherokee Indian heritage are wanted. Ancestry research is needed to verify heritage of each individual, which will come at no cost.

This article was published in partnership with the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet, and the Indigenous Investigative Collective, a project of the Native American Journalists ...

University of Kansas associate professor Kent Blansett’s contributions to the Native American community aren’t in question. Blansett was hired in 2020 through KU’s Langston Hughes professorship, a ...

I had never heard the term “pretendian” until The Star’s story about three KU professors who have come under fire for claiming Native American ancestry. There was a time when I was a pretendian, even ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has tried to put a nagging controversy behind her by apologizing privately to a leader of the Cherokee Nation for her decision to take a DNA test to prove her Native American ...

Principal chief of the Cherokee Indians in NC says the letter was a “desperate” way to gain Trump’s favor while seeking federal recognition.