Researcher Angela Walton-Raji has been studying African-Native genealogy for over 20 years. The Comanche family pictured here is from the early 1900s. Courtesy Sam DeVenney Angela Walton-Raji has been ...

November is National Native American Heritage Month. Emphasis is placed on sharing and celebrating indigenous people and learning more about those who may have connections to Native American ancestry.

Samuel Alito appeared to reference Sen. Elizabeth Warren during the Supreme Court's affirmative action case. The justice asked whether someone who identifies as Indigenous based on "family lore" could ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

India's population is genetically one of the most diverse in the world, yet it remains underrepresented in global datasets. In a study publishing in the Cell Press journal Cell, researchers analyzed ...

A historical diorama in the Native Hall of the Springfield Science Museum depicts three Native Americans at a tool-building site in the Connecticut River Valley with a man holding a freshly hunted ...