Solicitor General D. John Sauer seemed to struggle when pressed by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Wednesday on whether Native Americans should be considered birthright citizens. The question ...

Justice Neil Gorsuch pressed the government on its argument that the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause requires a child’s parents to be lawful permanent residents to obtain birthright citizenship.

WASHINGTON — In a moment that could take on new significance almost 150 years later, Omaha election official Charles Wilkins on April 5, 1880, refused to register John Elk to vote on the grounds that ...

Idaho state officials have been meeting since late 2024 in preparation for celebrating America’s 250th anniversary of independence. But until this February, those discussions did not include leaders ...

California is making waves with a jaw-dropping plan to settle a 175-year-old score — returning stewardship of a staggering 7.5 million acres of land and coastal waters to Native tribes. That’s 7% of ...

Many tribes are encouraged by Trump's choice of Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a member of the Cherokee nation, as the new DHS Secretary. ICE agents have been accused of racially profiling Native Americans.

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! When America’s founders were walking the cobblestones of Philadelphia in 1776 while ...

In an emailed statement, a spokesperson for French said he didn't mean all Native Americans, but rather only the ones in the photograph he shared with his comment on X. In February 2026, a rumor ...

Native American jingle dancers and ribbon dress dancers dance in front of the site where Alex Pretti was killed by federal agents, during a healing ceremony in Minneapolis, Minn. on Feb. 1, 2026. For ...

The Native American tribe that owns the land under Billie Eilish’s multimillion-dollar Los Angeles mansion said celebrities should “explicitly” reference the tribes if they want to use them to ...

The National Park Service is targeting signage and exhibits that discuss the removal of Native peoples from what is now Grand Canyon National Park. Tribal members and environmental groups have ...

Tribes in Michigan, including the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe (SCIT), have issued statements following the arrests of Native Americans in Minneapolis, including information for what tribe members ...