Where the U.S. Federal Courthouse stands now in Los Angeles was once the site of a market where Native Americans' labor was sold in a system the ACLU has called “slavery by another name.” (Photo by ...

Today is California Native American Day, a moment to recall California’s dark and painful history of genocide against Indian peoples. But it is also a moment of hope, as the state is taking notable ...

ELEC copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature Introduction : openings -- A people of the land, a land ...

Julia Dixon Evans: In 1769, Father Junípero Serra founded the first Spanish mission in California — just a couple of miles from our KPBS studio. Back then, California was home to an estimated 300,000 ...

Richard A. Hanks, a former archivist for Redlands’ A.K. Smiley Public Library, will present “TheSovereignty, Self Determination and Survival of Southern California Indians” when the Redlands Area ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. More than 17,000 acres of ancestral lands were returned to the Tule River Indian Tribe, part of a state effort to ...

As a Native American photographer, the late Dugan Aguilar loved nothing more than to show Native American faces. “I see beauty in people,” he once said. And for Aguilar, who devoted more than 40 years ...

NMAI copy Purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature Dedication -- Preface / Wayne A. Thompson, Gene Meieran -- ...