President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but ...

The jail cell was cold, damp and echoey. But sleeping in the old prison buildings of Alcatraz Island was the first time Robert Free Galvan had a sense of true liberty. In 1969, Galvan and other ...

A Long Island school pleaded Monday with the Trump administration to jump into its ongoing fight to keep its Native American team name – with one week until a pivotal legal deadline.

A judge ruled April 30 that a Rhode Island prison could not stop a Native American inmate from wearing a religious headband, according to court documents. Screengrab from the complaint A prison that ...

City lawmakers are leading the push to return Sand Island’s name to its Native Hawaiian name Mauliola, which means “breath of ...

Naval Base Ventura County has issued a notice to federally recognized tribes that the remains of two people excavated from ...

The Catawba Island Historical Society welcomes speaker Gabriel Rodriguez on May 21 to discuss the Indian Removal Act of 1830 ...

One of the last New York school districts fighting a 2023 ban on Native American mascots has won a powerful ally in the White House and triggered a counteroffensive against the state. The U.S ...