The Taíno were the first to greet Christopher Columbus when he arrived in 1492 and were thus some of the earliest Indigenous Peoples to be decimated by colonization...

Ojibwe poet Jane Johnston Schoolcraft set many precedents during her short life in the Midwest in the early 1800s...

The Navajo Nation’s first-ever Poet Laureate has been named and will be officially introduced to the public on May 17...

Words have always been a powerful force in Natalie Diaz’s life...

April is National Poetry Month, an annual celebration of verse initiated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996...

The word poetry can evoke echoes of everything from Shakespearean sonnets to minimalist Japanese haiku...

Chinua Achebe, author of the iconic novel that changed perceptions about indigenous culture by portraying colonialism from an African viewpoint, has died at age 82...

Poetry has long both reflected and guided Native experience, starting with oral communication down through the generations...