Elizabeth “Lil” Fenn wants to frame the story of Sacagawea as a window on the American West, and the National Endowment for the Humanities wants to help her. Fenn, a distinguished professor of history ...

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation's Sacagawea Project published a book compiling oral history, historical documents and DNA evidence they say proves Sacagawea was Hidatsa, not Shoshone. Sacagawea ...

The story of Sacagawea that most of us know is incomplete and not entirely correct. The Hidatsa tribe and other tribes have a long oral history that tells a different story of her life, including that ...

St. Louis, Mo. — If there was a Wonder Woman of Westward expansion, she might be it. To help Lewis and Clark make it across the country, she faced countless challenges--and now that face is on a gold ...

Freshman Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), who this week became one of the first two Native American women sworn into Congress, said it was “offensive and hurtful” for Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to call Sen.

Editor’s note: November is Native American Heritage Month. First proclaimed by President George H. W. Bush in 1990, it is an opportunity to acknowledge the histories and cultures of Native people ...