California Red-sided Gartersnake (Thamnophis sirtalis infernalis)

She's an enrolled member of the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe in Northern Wisconsin and is dedicated to sharing her passion and culture with communities far and wide. Michelle spends much of her time in communities throughout the Northern Great Lakes, near her home in Northern Michigan with her husband and two children. And through much of the school year, she's instructing her N8V (Native) Dance Fitness course, with learners as young as 6 months old.

Though it's taken several years for Cherokee metal artist Tommy Roe Mitchell to find his stride, his distinctive style is now giving him the opportunity to pursue his passion while stepping out from his father's shadow.

As an enrolled member of the Northern Arapaho tribe, University of Wyoming student Piram Duran plans to eventually return to the Wind River Indian Reservation and use the knowledge he gained at UW to improve the quality of life there.

There have been many political milestones for minorities in the United States in the past decade, still Americans have yet to see a Native American congresswoman.

They were hidden there, all this time, under the cover of tree canopies in the jungles of northern Guatemala: tens of thousands of structures built by the Maya over a millennium ago.

Not far from the sites tourists already know, like the towering temples of the ancient city of Tikal, laser technology has uncovered about 60,000 homes, palaces, tombs and even highways in the humid lowlands.

Archaeologists have spent more than a century traipsing through the Guatemalan jungle, Indiana Jones-style, searching through dense vegetation to learn what they could about the Maya civilization that was one of the dominant societies in Mesoamerica for centuries.

The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, which supported successful state legislation to make teaching credentials available in the subjects of Native American language and culture, now has three instructors with clear credentials who are ready to teach students throughout the Santa Ynez Valley.

Harvard's first-ever tenured professor in Native American studies, History professor Philip J. Deloria, began teaching last month, after years of activists calling for Native American studies offerings.

The new Native American Budget and Policy Institute (Institute) will launch Tuesday, Feb. 27 with the swearing in of its Governance Council at a reception at Tamaya Resort in Santa Ana Pueblo.

The Institute will conduct research, budget and policy analysis, social justice advocacy, litigation, and community lawyering to empower Native American communities to create self-determined and systematic change that will improve their health, education, and economic well-being.

Minnesota Historical Society's department of Native American Initiatives is creating a new permanent exhibit focusing on Native Americans in Minnesota.

The exhibit is slated to open in fall 2019 at the Minnesota History Center. The exhibit will feature the history of the Ojibwe and Dakota, from ancient to contemporary works, and recognize the Ho-Chunk legacy in Minnesota.

On March 2, the Hopi Education Endowment Fund (HEEF) will reintroduce one of their more popular and successful fundraising events, the HEEF Silent Auction.

The event takes place in Phoenix from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona (2214 N. Central Ave.) and will feature entertainment, traditional Hopi foods, a raffle, T-shirt sales, and of course, unique and exquisite Hopi/Native American art pieces up for bid.

Some nervous Manitoba parents will be in the stands in Pyeongchang Wednesday night, watching their daughter play in the game of a lifetime.

Team Canada's women's hockey team will go for gold against team U.S.A. (live on CBC at 10:10 p.m. CST) and Brigette Lacquette will be patrolling the blue-line on defence.

Each summer the Sequoyah National Research Center hosts three tribally affiliated student interns for June and July.

Interns are required to work a minimum of 25 hours per week in the center doing basic archival and research work under the direction of SNRC staff.

Humboldt County higher education, once part of a nationwide system dedicated to the destruction of Native American languages, may soon help nourish the survival of one.

While local elementary, middle and high schools have offered Yurok language courses in recent years to young children through the tribe’s Head Start program, local colleges have yet to do the same.

Six Indigenous athletes will be among those representing Canada at this year’s Winter Olympics.

The opening ceremonies for the Games, being staged in PyeongChang, South Korea, was staged this morning and a number of events – alpine skiing, biathlon, curling, luge and ski jumping – began their events on Wednesday and Thursday.

Missing for 170 years now, the bodies of the 129 crew members of Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition likely litter King William Island, Nunavut.

The remains that have been found show signs that in their last moments, those men ate each other.

Cherokee Nation citizen Brian Barlow was awarded a $10,000 Dreamstarter grant in 2017 to make a difference in his community. Since then, he’s been working to integrate the Cherokee language into the town’s Walmart.

When B.C.'s Josh Samuels was hired for a new job, he had no idea he would be taking part in creating the world of Marvel's Black Panther on the big screen.

Through a grant received from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission Program, Dickinson College is visiting communities who had children sent to Carlisle Indian School.

The grant is helping an archive team digitize records from the school.

Cherokee Nation Chief of Staff Chuck Hoskin is being honored as one of nine Northeastern State University 2018 Centurions.

It may not have any walls yet, but the Winnipeg Art Gallery's history-making Inuit Art Centre has its first curators.

On Thursday, the gallery announced the all-Inuit, four-woman team who will curate the inaugural exhibitions at the Inuit Art Centre, which is set to open in 2020. The $65-million centre will boast 40,000 square feet of exhibition, learning, research and studio space. A three-storey glass vault, showcasing 7,500 Inuit carvings, will serve as the heart of the centre.

"Indians are less than 1% of the population. Yet images and names of Indians are everywhere. How is it that Indians can be so present and so absent in American life?"

In a sea of sealskin and colourful commander fabric, Winifred Nungak's booth stands out for its pop of pink, from plush pompoms to dyed fox-fur mittens.

The Kangirsuk seamstress has curated a booth at this year's Northern Lights Business and Cultural Showcase, where her parkas and pualuuk (mittens) are embellished with colourful siniks or trim—a look that's become something of her trademark.

Brian Rogers was 16 years old when he first picked up a needle and thread.

Rogers wanted to make his own duffle socks — a liner made of duffle cloth — for his mukluks, so after years of watching his mother make intricate traditional clothing, he asked her to teach him.

The Tunica-Biloxi of Louisiana, along with its Language and Culture Revitalization Program, has released a second edition of their book, “The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe: Its Culture and People.”