A member of the Muskogee Creek tribe, Alexander Posey was born in Oklahoma in 1873, and in 1901, he founded the Eufaula Indian Journal, the first Native American newspaper. RD.COM, GETTY IMAGES 9.

VICENZA, Italy --"Native Pride and Spirit: Yesterday, Today and Forever" is the theme for this year's Native American Heritage Month. In keeping with this tradition the Vicenza Military Community ...

Poet Layli Long Soldier's forthcoming collection of poetry called "Whereas" is a critique of President Obama's 2010 apology to Native Americans for their mistreatment by the U.S. government.

A Delicious Discussions luncheon with Connecticut author Megan Collins to celebrate the release of her debut novel, “The Winter Sister,” will take place March 6, from noon to 1:30 p. m.… ...

For centuries, Native poetry has been preserved by the spoken word. So when a team of editors were putting together a new anthology of Native poetry, with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo among them ...

Joy Harjo Named U.S. Poet Laureate, Becoming First Native American In That Role A member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, the 68-year-old poet and musician says she bears "the honor on behalf of the ...

A new Harvard study of a Native American’s eighteenth-century Latin poem reveals new details about colonial-era education at Harvard and substantiates otherwise unconfirmed accounts of the ...

In An American Sunrise, Harjo’s 16th book of poetry, released by Norton this week, she continues to bear witness to the violence encountered by Native Americans in the aftermath of Andrew ...

The poet Joy Harjo, who was recently named the U.S. Poet Laureate, and who is the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to hold the position, has said: I feel strongly that I have a ...

A new Harvard study of a Native American’s eighteenth-century Latin poem reveals new details about colonial-era education at Harvard and substantiates otherwise unconfirmed accounts of the academic ...