Reviving race science plays into centuries of oppression. A group from the Saginaw Chippewa Reservation in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, gathers with hundreds of protesters near the Standing Rock Sioux ...
Campus News Championing Native American DNA Kimberly TallBear, this year’s recipient of the University of California, Santa Cruz Distinguished Humanities Graduate Student Alumni Award, is being ...
When I was growing up, my mother frequently spoke of her Native American ancestry. She claimed to be one-eighth Cherokee; and often said this qualified her to live on the reservation. I loved knowing ...
NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient skeleton found nearly 20 years ago in a river in Washington is related to Native Americans, says a DNA study that could help resolve a long-running dispute over its ancestry ...
A mysterious DNA marker is rewriting everything we thought we knew about how humans first reached the Americas. Haplogroup X, a rare maternal lineage found in both Europe and among Native American ...
A Neanderthal skull on display at the Natural History Museum, London. Many modern humans have inherited around 1 to 2 percent of their DNA from Neanderthals and their close relatives, Denisovans. In ...