Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Native American designer Dante Biss-Grayson (Osage), taking up space at New York Fashion Week earlier this month was an ...

The phrase “cultural appropriation” appears in many forms and many contexts. And the debates surrounding it have swelled periodically, especially in the last 20 years. But what does it really mean, ...

Luxury brands continue to draw controversy for appropriation of Indigenous communities’ culture, reducing motifs and symbols ...

Join moderator Melissa Shaginoff (Ahtna Athabascan, Paiute) and speakers Dimi Macheras (Dena’ina Athabascan), Vera Starbard (Tlingit, Dena’ina Athabascan) and Peter Williams (Yup’ik) to learn about ...

What is the difference between cultural appropriation and appreciation? Dr. Jeffery Darensbourg (Atakapa-Ishak) explains, and provides a reasoning behind why the suits of Mardi Gras Indians, who are ...

Every Halloween, it is a chance for people to get creative with costumes, but for Native Americans, seeing their culture turned into a costume highlights a persistent problem of cultural appropriation ...

Within the food industry, there is always controversy over what is considered cultural appropriation and appreciation. First, I will give fundamental definitions of the terms I will use in this ...

Bundles of sage and Palo Santo packaged as “smudging kits” are available for sale at yoga studio gift shops, popular retailers like Madewell and Urban Outfitters, and even behemoths like Walmart.

Why would a 100+-year-old youth organization finally decide to address and end its long history of cultural appropriation? Because young people asked them to. For more than a century, national youth ...