Chacon is the first Native American composer to win a Pulitzer Prize. His prize-winning work Voiceless Mass, performed in a ...

Morgan “Mwalim” Peters with son Zyg at their music studio in Wareham. They are individually nominated for Native American Music Awards.

Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor and The Zyg 808, both Mashpee Wampanoag, talk about their nominations for Native American Music ...

(AP Photo/Haven Daley) U.S. President Calvin Coolidge wears a Native American headdress of the Sioux tribe as he is adopted as Chief Leading Eagle and first white chief of the tribe at the celebration ...

The life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped below 64 years, close to life expectancies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti. For many Asian ...

About 16 percent of Americans aged 21 and older say they use cannabis as a sleep aid, according to a new industry-backed survey. That makes marijuana more popular for sleep than prescription sleep ...

Native American Church members in Texas have long used peyote in prayer and during religious ceremonies. But believers and academics now say there's a shortage of the bluish-green plant ...

Billie Joe Armstrong didn’t mince his words as Green Day performed “American Idiot” in Johannesburg, South Africa over the weekend. While visiting Elon Musk‘s home country on Sunday ...

“The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over ‘native’ Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation ...

As a Native American elder, a historian and storyteller, I spent much of my life sharing the truths about the past, even when they are painful. I have always believed that to heal and move forward, we ...

Centuries of anti-Native American policies and colonization have upheld inequities between Native residents in Massachusetts and non-Native Americans, according to a new report that researchers ...

Native Americans face limited opportunities to grow their wealth in Massachusetts, according to a new report that aims to fill gaps from existing data with new insights from focus groups with ...