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Since 2019 Wisconsin has celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday of October. The Milwaukee Public Museum held an event to celebrate Indigenous cultures with educational presentations and dance demonstrations.

In Washington, D.C., residents celebrated Indigenous People's Day by birdwatching on Roosevelt Island. Centuries before the island became a memorial to the president, it was home to Native Americans.

Canada celebrates its Thanksgiving holiday in mid-October, and that's just one of many differences with its American counterpart.

Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the United States. The holiday celebrates and honors American Indian people, their cultures, and their rich history - past and present.

A movement recast the second Monday in October as a day to appreciate the history of Indigenous communities. That visibility, say Native Americans, can help us see what else needs to change.

It's Native American Heritage Day. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Ned Blackhawk, a professor of History and American Studies at Yale, about the history of the day and what it means to observe it.

A remote Amazon town of mostly indigenous Brazilians is struggling to protect its population as the coronavirus spreads through the forest.

The agency announced it is launching a new alert system similar to Amber Alerts for missing children. California and some other states have already adopted alerts for missing Indigenous persons.

Coronavirus cases among Native Americans in Wisconsin have tripled since Sept. 1 as the state continues to grapple with the pandemic.The state Department…

The chaos that plagued Georgia’s primary this week is raising concerns about a potential broader failure of the nation’s patchwork election system that…