Native American

Who's an American Indian? Warren case stirs query

25 May 2012

What, exactly, makes someone American Indian? Even Indians themselves don't agree as they debate the case of Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, whose disputed claim of Native American identity is shining a rare spotlight on the malleable nature of Indian heritage and the long history of murky claims to such ancestry.

Sen. Brown: Harvard must fix Native American claim

25 May 2012

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown called on Harvard University to "correct the record" Friday after reporting for six years that it had a Native American woman in its top law school staff -- an apparent reference to Brown's chief Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren.

American Indian Museum Displays Jim Thorpe’s Gold Medals in Exhibit Honoring Native Olympians

25 May 2012

With the upcoming Summer Olympics in London falling on the 100th anniversary of the 1912 games in Stockholm, where the legendary Jim Thorpe won, then lost, then posthumously won again two gold medals, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian opened a new exhibit Friday morning to honor Native olympians. Read full article >>