“Conflict” seems to imply war and genocide. If disease killed them, it would be very odd for another group to move into their ...

Until the 2024 fiscal year, inflation-adjusted dollars for the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act's housing grant program remained below levels from fiscal year 2000.

While California’s original Native American inhabitants were able to move their camps and villages further inland to avoid rising sea levels as well as extreme tides and storm waves, this is ...

Kwethluk, Alaska. March 24, 2025. The Bering Straits Regional Housing Authority, headquartered in Nome, serves Brevig Mission along with 17 other communities.

Little Diomede, which was sold by the Russians to America along with the rest of Alaska in 1867, has been the American sentinel on the Bering Strait ever since the cold war.

Like other wild horses in the U.S. today, the Salt River herd is mostly descended from horses first brought to North America in the 15th century.

Black and white painting of a group of Native Americans (Chualpay Indians) sitting around two people in the middle playing a game with sticks called Al-Kol-Lock” at Fort Colvile. Native American DNA ...

Other communities include Wales, population 160, at the edge of the American side of the strait; Gambell, also on St. Lawrence Island, with 600 residents; and Diomede, a tiny island community in ...

It was once believed that ancient Siberians, who crossed over a land bridge that existed in the Bering Strait linking modern Russia and Alaska, were the sole ancestors of Native Americans.

Native American Indians migrated across the Bering Strait to and from Eurasia, according to past and present scientific studies. Yet new research has not only revealed traces of their DNA in the ...

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve. Credit: National Park Service The story of how early humans migrated to North America might not be as simple as we once thought. The prevailing theory was that ...