Every third Saturday of July for the past 98 years, Indigenous people have gathered on the Rainbow Bridge between Niagara ...

Monday is becoming increasingly known as Indigenous Peoples' Day, a commemoration of Native American history and culture.. While the second Monday in October has historically been celebrated as ...

Indigenous peoples of Canada know of the horrors that generations of children were forced to endure in residential schools.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day — a holiday that came about as an alternative to Columbus Day — is a chance to reflect on how the US has treated Indigenous people and fight for a better future.

Native Land Digital, a Canadian nonprofit, offers resources for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to learn more about the land and its history. It hopes its map will be just a part of that journey.

Reséndez, a professor of history at the University of California, Davis, estimates between 2.5 million and 5 million Indigenous people were enslaved from 1491 to 1900.

However, some say mere observance of the day does not do enough, and point out that no American president has explicitly apologized for the country’s treatment of Indigenous peoples.

Mervin “Chag” Lowry, of Yurok, Maidu, and Achumawi ancestry and executive director of the Indigenous Futures Institute at UC ...

Members of a Native-American dance group from Tesuque Pueblo in New Mexico perform in the historic Plaza in Santa Fe, N.M., as part of the city's Indigenous Peoples' Day program on Oct. 8, 2018.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day advocates say the recognition helps correct a “whitewashed” American history that has glorified Europeans, such as Columbus, who have committed violence against Indigenous ...

Indigenous people have often been erased from the country's historical record — a survey from the National Congress of American Indians found that 87% of state history standards don't mention ...