DNA supports modern Picuris Pueblo accounts of ancestry going back more than 1,000 years to Chaco Canyon society.

As this week’s deadline looms for a report ordered by President Donald Trump, many Lumbee people believe the federal government is on the cusp of righting a wrong Congress made 69 years ago.

Now, that community — Picuris Pueblo — has asserted its ancient roots in Chaco Canyon using DNA evidence, with help from ...

The Picuris Pueblo initiated the research to show their ties to Chaco Canyon, the center of an Ancestral Pueblo regional ...

When Roger Williams, founder of the Rhode Island colony, talked with local Native Americans, he reported that the younger tribe members ... earthquakes in eastern North America from Native ...

Revised textbooks on the five Native American tribes that share geography ... said they were aware of tribal history resources published by the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Lumbee Act, which recognized the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina but denied them federal benefits.

Blakeslee is a semi-retired anthropologist from Wichita State University. He’s polite, soft-spoken most of the time, and able ...

But he and his older brother, Tribal Chairman John Lowery, are confident that full federal recognition is closer than ever for the Lumbee people who make up the largest Native American tribe east ...