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.

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

During November’s Chiefs game against the Las Vegas Raiders, nine-year-old Holden Armenta was shown on CBS wearing a Native American headdress and with half his face painted black and the other ...

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 ...

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 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 ...