Members of two Long Island Indian nations have expressed concern about potential disruption of native burial and artifact sites along portions of the land-based route of the Sunrise Wind cable ...

The waves represent the 13 native Long Island Indian communities, while the turtle embodies the Indians’ creation story. “The concept is 10,000 years old,” said Wallace, 63, emerging from ...

The Shinnecock and Unkechaug Tribal Nations have been named among 85 disadvantaged communities on Long Island to receive extra state funding, but the tribes are unhappy with the mapping methodology.

According to historians, the Shinnecock Indian Nation has lived on eastern Long Island for 10,000 years, rather a longer residency than the denizens of the surrounding uber-wealthy and celebrity ...

As far as the records show, no one has spoken Shinnecock or Unkechaug, languages of Long Island’s Indian tribes, for nearly 200 years. Now Stony Brook University and two of the Indian nations ...

Local Native American tribes have been trying, and failing, for decades to bring recognition to this part of the history of the Boston Harbor Islands as well as protection for the Indian burial ...

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A small Indian tribe on New York’s Long Island learned Tuesday that it had won a decades-long fight for formal federal recognition, inching it closer to opening a casino.

ALBANY The Shinnecock Indians’ 32-year battle for federal recognition ended with prayer, drumming and an Algonquin victory song on Long Island on Tuesday after the Obama administration approved ...

For these Shinnecock Indians,it was a moment three decades in the making. “Our ancestors are smiling down on us today,” said tribe member Josephine Smith.

A small Long Island Indian tribe has been formally recognized by the federal government. The decision announced Tuesday is seen as a key step toward the Shinnecock Indians eventually opening a ...

Yes, the community is disproportionately affected by opioid addiction, said Jean-Luc Pierite, of the North American Indian Center of Boston, which is working with the Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck Tribe.

A LONG Island Indian tribe filed a landmark lawsuit yesterday claiming ownership of 3,600 acres of the richest land in the country: the Hamptons. Trying to advance a stalled plan to build a casino … ...