Native Americans

At a campus dig site, where a required survey tied to planned infrastructure for a new football stadium, researchers with the University of West Florida Archaeology Institute have uncovered artifacts from pre-Columbian Native cultures.

Unearthing Florida segment on Madira Bickel Mound State Archaeological Park

Peltier, 80, grew emotional at an events center in Belcourt on the Turtle Mountain reservation. Then-President Joe Biden commuted Peltier’s life sentence to home confinement, leading to his release.

Peltier was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the slayings of two FBI agents in 1975. He arrived home in North Dakota after he was released from a federal penitentiary in Florida.

Centuries ago, Philippe Park in Safety Harbor was home to the Tocobaga village. An archeological report found a picnic shelter and an adjacent playground could be sitting on top of Native American graves.

Under a bill filed Wednesday, Florida would give state recognition to the Santa Rosa Band of the Lower Muscogee, the Muscogee Nation of Florida and the Lower Chattahoochee Band of Yuchi Indians.

Children were forbidden from using their native languages and from practicing their religion and culture. They were given new Anglo-American names, clothes, and were forced to cut their hair.

There’s no accurate count of the number of Native American women who go missing or are murdered every year in the United States.

A grant program designed to dismantle anti-Black racism has led to a new initiative: Native American studies.

Some faculty at the University of Miami responded to last summer's reckoning over racial injustice by proposing a new program in Native American and Global Indigenous Studies.

Native Americans join the military at a high rate, but some struggle with the military's role in displacing and subjugating Indigenous people throughout the nation's history.

This acknowledgment joins a growing number of institutions across the country issuing land acknowledgments to honor native lands.