HARTFORD, Conn. — One of the nation’s best-known and most prosperous American Indian tribes will soon have a new public face: that of a woman, its first female tribal chief in almost 300 years. Lynn ...
TULANE COUNTY, Calif. -- Cousins Samirah Gibson Nieto and Aliya Gibson are members of the federally recognized Tule River Tribe. Samirah lives on the reservation in rural Southeast Tulare County in ...
A new glimmer of hope has opened up for a tribe of tool using chimpanzees after the last fertile female gave birth to a healthy baby girl. The tiny community of apes, famed for their remarkable use of ...
As the newly-inaugurated Second Chief, Millie Thompson Williams will work with the principal chief and tribal council on maintaining culture and traditions. But Williams told KERA’s Sam Baker she ...
LAPWAI, Idaho — Redwing Two Moons hung on to the reins as the exotic horse raced around a small circular corral. Rarely ridden, the horse known as Yellowhand was refusing to take orders from the ...
SENECA, Mo. - For the first time in the history of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, a woman has been sworn in as chief. Glenna J. Wallace, 68, of rural Seneca, was sworn in Wednesday at the ...