ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. This story is part of an ongoing series investigating the return of Native American ancestral remains. Sign up for ProPublica’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike Heck, Derrick Prentice, Principal Chief Lora Chaisson, and Michael Billiot (Photo/United Houma Nation) The United Houma ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — They sit in silence, passed by thousands each and every day. Grassy mounds off Moore’s Lane at ...

What starts as a visit to a suspected Native American site in a remote Georgia creek bottom quickly turns into a layered ...

With more than 12,000 years of Indigenous history, this is the frontrunner to become America’s 64th National Park, marking a ...

Cartersville — Valarie Ikhwan gathered with some colleagues inside the nearly empty museum at the Etowah Indian Mounds earlier this year, inspecting some animal pelts intended for a new hands-on ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — What is now St. Louis was once home to more than 100 mounds constructed by Native Americans — so many that St. Louis was once known as “Mound City.” Settlers tore most of them down, ...

Dwayne Johnson, like many others, got back to nature on Earth Day, sharing photos of his visit to Etowah Indian Mounds. “May not look like much in terms of a fancy selfie #earthday picture for ...

Every day when Logan Pappenfort is at work, he tries not to dwell on what’s under his feet. Beneath the south wing of the museum where he’s interim director are the remains of at least 234 of his ...

For decades, Dickson Mounds Museum in Illinois displayed the open graves of more than 200 Indigenous people. Thirty years after a federal law required museums to begin returning remains, the statewide ...