Honoring the native nations
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The new attraction in Washington, DC, can help bring part of the Smithsonian to Kansas, director of Wichita museum says. BY ALAN BJERGA.
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By John Norton, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jun.
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Many Native Americans believe exhibits at the soon-to-open Smithsonian museum in Washington are literally alive&#151;some masks are even fed cornmeal. Includes photo gallery.
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By Deborah Bulkeley Deseret Morning News  In an effort to curb increasing unauthorized visitation to tribal lands, the Confederated Tribe of the Goshute Reservation has passed a law against trespassing.
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Reenactors following in the footsteps of the Lewis and Clark expedition are encountering weather and experiences that are making the modern journey an adventure in its own right.
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ALI JEGK, Arizona  - Members of a traditional Indian nation spanning the Arizona-Mexico border are complaining that work to put up a new barrier to secure the border has desecrated an ancient burial ground.
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Washington -- If the new National Museum of the American Indian confined itself to such displays as its impressive collections of Seminole, Shoshone and Hopi kachina dolls, or North American peace pipes and tomahawks, it would differ little from other
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Sept. 21, 2004 -- A blessing from the San Carlos Apache of San Carlos, Ariz., heralded the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian Tuesday morning.
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Indigenous to the region, the Inuit want a 'meaningful voice' in the territory dispute.
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Tuesday the Smithsonian&#39;s new National Museum of the American Indian opens near the US Capitol. By all accounts, it is a landmark worthy of the people it seeks to celebrate.
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Thousands of native Americans -- some in buckskin and feathers, others in T-shirts and jeans -- joined a ceremonial procession on Tuesday to celebrate the opening of the Museum of the American Indian.
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A colorful Native Nations procession heralded the opening Tuesday of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of the American Indian, the newest addition to the historical treasure-trove dotting the National Mall.
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An ancient native American cancer treatment is shown to have a beneficial effect, despite scepticism.
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At the National Museum of the American Indian, Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, right, a Northern Cheyenne and Republican from Colorado, applauds Richard West jnr, a Southern Cheyenne who is the museum&#39;s director.
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SKULL VALLEY, Utah  - As some U.S. Indian tribes   have grown rich in recent years through casinos, others far   from population centers have struggled to overcome a historical   legacy of poverty.
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Dennis Champlain's grandfather helped win federal recognition for the Narragansett Indian Tribe. Champlain himself has danced in tribal powwows and teaches his children that they are Narragansetts. Yet the Narragansetts say he is no longer a member of the tribe.
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Across the Americas, Native Americans are preparing for Tuesday's opening powwow in Washington, D.C.&#151;the largest such gathering in recent times.