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By Cheyenne Leach The U.S. Mint released a new $1 coin this month, featuring five Native American women known as the Five Moons Ballerinas. In the foreground of the coin is Osage ballerina Maria Tallchief behind the rest of the ‘Five Moons Ballerinas,’ on this year's $1

Mr. Bruner was given the number 1 for his Dawes roll number. He was a former slave of a Creek Indian named Wash Barnett. After the Creek Nation was forced to emancipate their African slaves in 1866, Paro Bruner became a prominent Creek leader by serving as a elected Creek

by Paige Willett Creed Humphrey is a Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member and center for the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs. At only 23 years old, the Peltier family descendant played his second season of professional football in 2022-23, ending with his first Super Bowl appearance on Feb. 12, 2023.

By: Associated Press A few months after South Dakota banned abortion last year, April Matson drove more than nine hours to take a friend to a Colorado clinic to have the procedure. The trip brought back difficult memories of Matson’s own abortion at the same clinic in 2016. The

Agnes “Babe” Walker was the daughter of Houston Rogers, a Cherokee Freedman once enslaved by Clement Vann Rogers, the father of Will Rogers. After the Civil War, Agnes worked for the Rogers family and even cared for young Will. Her husband, Dan Walker, is believed to have taught Will many

Angel Goodrich will be inducted into the National American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame this year. Born in Glendale, Arizona, to parents Jonathan and Fayth Lewis. She has two siblings, an older brother Zach and a younger sister Nikki. She is a member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee

By Dacoda McDowell-Wahpekeche Sovereign Community School is looking for ways to continue teaching Native American youth after being notified their funding could end in June. Members of the State Board of Education voted Jan. 26 to issue a notice of termination, which could close the school if a new sponsor