Native Americans

Donald Trump cracks Pocahontas 'joke' while hosting Native American veterans in White House

US president Donald Trump dubbed a Democratic rival "Pocahontas" on Tuesday, during an event designed to honour Native American veterans.

Dakota access pipeline: You don’t have to be that rich to play fast and loose with tribes and their land

The movement against an oil pipeline, the Dakota Access Pipeline in America’s heartland that had brought together hundreds of different American Indian tribes, said to be the largest gathering of Native American tribes in more than a century, and multitudes of non-tribals from all parts of America, environmental crusaders, Hollywood stars, other celebrities, thousands of ex-servicemen even, hardly the activist type but pipelines in America come under the purview of the army which had given the green signal to this pipeline in the first place and had the power to stop it too.

American Indian actors quit Adam Sandler movie over offensive portrayal of characters

A group of American Indian actors have walked off the set of an Adam Sandler movie over complaints about stereotypes and offensive names.

Oldest-known human skeleton offers new clues about human migration

The near-complete human skeleton was found by a team of scientific divers in the Sac Actun cave system located off the eastern Yucatan Peninsula in 2007

Site where Pocahontas protected John Smith to be preserved

A farm field overlooking the York River in Tidewater Virginia is believed to be where Pocahontas interceded with her powerful father Powhatan to rescue English Capt. John Smith from death