Researcher Angela Walton-Raji has been studying African-Native genealogy for over 20 years. The Comanche family pictured here is from the early 1900s. Courtesy Sam DeVenney Angela Walton-Raji has been ...

How does one legally establish Native American ancestry? Legal recognition as a tribal member varies depending on the Native American nation in which you seek enrollment. Native American communities ...

According to the 23andMe DNA-testing service, I have 0.1 percent West African DNA from my mother. I also have approximately 5-6 percent Native American from my mother, who is now deceased. I have a ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — It was the late University of Michigan professor Wilbert Hinsdale who compiled much of what is known about where Native Americans lived and traveled in the Ann Arbor area before white ...

For decades, the debate over who the first Americans truly were has never been solved completely. Scientists, archaeologists, and indigenous communities have long struggled to reconcile folklore with ...

The dilemma arose just a few days before the book was set to go to press. Two contributing authors confronted their editor, Larry Gross, an associate professor of race and ethnic studies at University ...

In 1928, a forty-one-year-old woman named Adeline Ovitt, née Rivers, drowned in the Schroon River, in upstate New York. The circumstances of her death are largely unknown, but she left behind a ...