Native American

One year into the Oneida Reads program, reading proficiency among Native students in Brown and Outagamie Counties has improved.

For centuries, Ho-Chunk people have created small lodges called ciiporoke for sleeping, cooking and gathering as a community. Now, a Ho-Chunk builder is helping Wisconsin students construct their own structure.

Madison’s Lake Mendota is chock full of very, very old canoes. That includes one that’s more than 5,000 years old that was partially unearthed by archaeologists this year.

The Menominee Indian Nation of Wisconsin requested the return of human remains and burial objects.

Evan Larson, a fire ecologist at UW-Platteville, says the spark has been ignited for a return to cultural prescribed burns. This centuries-old Indigenous practice once helped red pine and blueberries flourish along Lake Superior.

Twenty Wisconsin school districts located on tribal lands that collectively enroll more than 21,000 students have not received routine federal funding for operations, including teacher salaries.  The federal government issued […]

For former state archaeologist Robert Birmingham, the mound landscapes are a “spectacular phenomenon” unique to the region — a piece of ancient history that still matters today.

In a historic moment, the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have completed the first known land transfer nationwide from a Catholic institution to a tribal nation in the name of reparations.

Environmental groups argue a federal permit issued for Enbridge’s Line 5 reroute is unlawful due to an ongoing legal challenge. Labor unions and business groups hailed the approval.

For the first time in its history, the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin released lake sturgeon into Clam Lake as part of efforts to restore the ancient fish.