The Houma are a Native American tribe who originally lived in what is now Mississippi and spoke a language closely related to Choctaw. After European colonists arrived, they allied themselves with the French and began to migrate further south, into what is now Louisiana. Today, many Houma still live...

Chester Nez, the last of the original “Navajo Code talkers” who encrypted US military communications during World War II, died this Wednesday. In a time when Native Americans were still widely discriminated against by the US government, the code talkers created a code based on the Navajo...

The New Year brought sad news for the Chickasaw Nation of Native Americans. On December 30, 2013 they lost Emily Dickerson, the last monolingual speaker of the Chickasaw language. She was at least 93 years old. The Chickasaw once lived in the Southeastern United States, in what is now Mississippi, t...