Indigenous Peoples

A leader of the San Antonio Native American community is speaking out about the latest controversy at the Alamo over the firing of Alamo Trust President and CEO Kate Rogers and the removal of an Indigenous Peoples Day social media post.

When you think of Mount Rushmore, you picture four presidents carved in stone in the Black Hills of South Dakota. But part of that story began in San Antonio. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began shaping his vision for the monument while working in San Antonio. As Mount Rushmore celebrates 100 years, we look back on the history and future of the landmark.

In the final installment of this three-part series, Bonnie Petrie and reporter Robin Berghaus go from an isolated stretch of desert along the Rio Grande, where wild peyote grows, to the exuberant rooms at SXSW, where they consider the future of psychedelics-as-medicine, and back to the hallowed halls of the Texas Legislature, where the future of the so-called Ibogaine Bill is uncertain.

American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions hosts its inaugural week of action to highlight the epidemic of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and People (MMIWP).

The agency announced it is launching a new alert system similar to Amber Alerts for missing children. California and some other states have already adopted alerts for missing Indigenous persons.

In the beginning, relatives of the people buried in El Cementerio del Barrio de los Lipanes hoped to protect the Lipan Apache burial ground from further decay. Three years later, they’ve created a memorial that helps visitors understand its past — and look to the future.

Actress Lily Gladstone has made history as the first Indigenous person to be nominated for an Oscar for best actress.

These delicious treats were cultivated and enjoyed by native people for hundreds if not thousands of years. But with the arrival of the Spanish in Latin America, they were shared around the globe.

Native Americans join the military at a high rate, but some struggle with the military's role in displacing and subjugating Indigenous people throughout the nation's history.

The Christopher Columbus statue in a downtown park came down for the first time in 63 years, and it may not be going back up. Workers detached the statue…