Thanksgiving is one of the few times of the year when many modern-day Americans think back to the European colonists who first settled in North America back in the 1600s, and by extension the ...

For hundreds of years, the ocean has protected the Guna Yala culture on Cardi Sugdub, or Crab Island, located off the coast of Panama. On the island, every square inch is occupied by about a thousand ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Standing at more than 10 feet tall with a whale-bone club clenched in his fist is “Steh-Chass Man,” a Welcome Figure overlooking ...

There are strict laws against tourists making contact with isolated tribes, as exposure to outside visitors can have ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — A Rhode Island Indian tribe was at the State House Tuesday evening, fighting once again to get recognition from Rhode Island. Seaconke Wampanoag Tribal Chief Darrell Waldron ...

Several Long Island Indigenous tribes have backed a state bill that would protect unmarked ancestral grave sites across New York. The Shinnecock and Unkechaug tribes want lawmakers in New York to pass ...

A 24-year-old American tourist was arrested after attempting to make contact with “world’s most isolated” tribe on North Sentinel Island, located in the Indian Ocean. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, a ...

Members of two Long Island Indian nations have expressed concern about potential disruption of native burial and artifact sites along portions of the land-based route of the Sunrise Wind cable, and ...