Photographer Edward S. Curtis spent 30 years photographing more than 80 Native American tribes in the early 1900s.Edward S. Curtis/Library of Congress Edward S. Curtis spent 30 years documenting over ...

Native people inhabited the land that would become the United States long before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But it wasn’t until 1924, when Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, ...

The pandemic reduced Native American life expectancy at birth from the already low 72 years in 2019 to about 67 years in 2020 and about 65 years in 2021 for both sexes combined. Native Americans ...

Indigenous people in Chicago have influenced everything from the placement of roadways along their onetime trade routes to the name of our city itself. But this is not a history lesson. Chicago is ...

NATIVE AMERICA returns this October to PBS with four new hour-long episodes that present a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Native America. Building on the first season’s success, Season 2 of ...

Native Americans experienced disproportionately high rates of deaths from COVID-19 due to poverty, crowded housing, high rates of chronic disease, employment in frontline jobs, and limited access to ...

Wednesdays, Nov. 13 - 20 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream Seasons 1 - 2 now with KPBS Passport! NATIVE AMERICA returns this October with four new hour-long episodes that present a groundbreaking portrait ...

Life expectancy for American Indian and Alaska Natives declined over the past two years and dropped more than other populations in the U.S., according to a recently released national study. For ...