Many places in Michigan, including cities and streets, have French-origin names, a remnant of the state's past. Here's what to know.

Canada was a world leader in the abolition of slavery. So why does an NDP MP want the government to issue an apology?

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

As wildfires engulfed Manitoba's remote north in late May, Joseph Garry, 63, fled the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation indigenous ...

Almost 22% of U.S. residents age 5 and older spoke a language other than English at home, double the share from four decades ...

In the early 1700s this region was a frontier between European colonizers and a threatened Abenaki way of life.

Many Washington state locales have names with tricky pronunciation. Here are some of the toughest ones, with tips on how to ...

Two tribal nations filed a lawsuit Thursday saying that the federal government used the trust fund money of tribes to pay for boarding schools where generations of Native children were ...

There are five times more French students studying in Canadian universities today than 20 years ago. A study reveals the ...

But more recently, Bill 161, titled "Changing the membership of the New Hampshire commission on Native ... of the tribes had no Abenaki ancestry, but rather are descendants from French-Canadian ...

French Canadians in the Adirondacks once faced ... complexion was evidence of inferiority and intermingling with Native Americans. In 1881 the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics declared ...

But Danforth and many other tribal health officials say Medicaid cuts would cause service reductions at health facilities that serve Native Americans. Indian Country has a unique relationship to ...