NFL franchise the Kansas City Chiefs received their name in May 1963 - one which they owe, amid some controversy, to former mayor Harold Roe Bartle.

The parents of a 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan have filed a lawsuit against the sports blog Deadspin, accusing the outlet of “maliciously” maligning their son as a racist based on a ...

Sports blog Deadspin has lost its bid to dismiss a defamation lawsuit over an article accusing a young Kansas City Chiefs fan ...

Intermountain was the largest boarding school for Native Americans in the United States, and throughout its operation housed over 20,000 students from 99 tribes.

It was Bartle’s 1925 founding of a Boy Scouts of America ‘tribe’ inspired by the customs and practices of Native Americans that was the catalyst for the team to become known as the Chiefs.

Native activists hold signs calling on the Kansas City professional football team to drop its racist mascot at a press conference at the Nuwu Art Gallery + Community Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on ...

(National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian) For many Americans, the eagle feather headdress is a generic symbol of Native America indivisible from the narrative of the wild west and ...

Native American photographers are pushing back against portrayals of their culture by non-natives, capturing scenes that reflect alternative views of indigenous life. Photo illustration by CARA ...

The historical trove — a lush headdress of eagle feathers ... He didn’t want to know about a box of Native American artifacts and eagle feathers, he told them. Federal law both encourages ...