Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)

Radmilla Cody says her singing career started in a sheep corral behind her grandmother's home on the Navajo reservation near Flagstaff, Ariz.

Her first audience was the sheep. Her inspiration came from what she saw and heard around her.

"When you're way out in the middle of nowhere, and you're herding sheep, and you're spending time jumping over the salt bushes and sitting around listening to all the beautiful sounds of nature, something's going to make you open your mouth,"

The Flagstaff Beautification and Public Arts Commission has chosen renowned Navajo artist, Redwing Ted Nez, known for his contemporary works depicting modern Navajo way of life, to paint the Centennial Walk Mural at the Flagstaff Visitor Center.

The Centennial Walk, an official Legacy Project, is a section of the Flagstaff Urban Trails System (FUTS) along the northern edge of the historic train depot property where the Flagstaff Visitor Center is located.

A $40 million Alaska Native collection is debuting in Anchorage this month, representing a homecoming for 600 rare objects, most of which have never before been seen in public, much less touched.

Spring at Fort Belknap College promises to be the start of an exciting endeavor, the Aaniinen-Nakoda Environmental Excellence Center will be teaming up with the National Science Foundation-Tribal Colleges and Universities Program to re-establish native plants in local areas.

There is finally a place for Native American students to call their own on the University of Montana campus.

MANKATO - After almost 150 years, the Monroe 74 finally met the Dakota 38 on Wednesday.

Lushootseed tribal language teachers, students, and advocates from around Puget Sound gathered at a conference on Saturday (May 1) to celebrate the rich cultural inheritance of their Puget Salish language, but also to assess the language's chances of survival in the 21st century.

SAN MANUEL, Ariz. – On a sunny spring day in April a small crowd of people gathered at the San Manuel Airport outside of Tucson. They traveled from as far as Colorado and California to attend the two-day Gyrocopter “Fly-in” event.

In 1967, while teaching at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, Fritz Scholder began a series of controversial, pop-tinged portraits that upended the way American Indians typically had been portrayed."I have painted the Indian real, not red," he wrote.

In the heat of battle with an enemy dead at his feet, 19-year-old Northern Cheyenne warrior Limpy took the cartridge belt from a trooper who had dared threaten the village his people shared with the Lakota on the banks of the Little Bighorn River.

Sioux Falls, S.D. – Indigenous' Mato Nanji is preparing to embark on the next chapter of the Native blues band's story with a 10-year anniversary album and world tour.

"More than anything else, he wanted to be remembered." That's how Nathaniel ("Mayflower") Philbrick sizes up George Armstrong Custer toward the end of "The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Bighorn," and no one will dispute that America's ultimate glory hound got his wish.