Ada Deer, the former United States assistant secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs and Native American leader in Wisconsin, has died at age 88.

Native American storyteller Perry Ground, a Turtle Clan member of the Onondaga Nation, starts his "rethinking" of Thanksgiving with a quiz. Ground, who has been telling stories for 25 years in an ...

In her fascinating new book, “The Age of Deer,” Erika Howsare considers the role deer have played in the creation of an American mythology — and how that mythology nearly led to the animal ...

Ada Deer, an esteemed leader of Native American descent hailing from Wisconsin and the pioneering first woman to head the Bureau of Indian Affairs, has passed away at the age of 88.

Ada Deer, a member of the Menominee tribe in Wisconsin who was a leading figure in the movement for greater Native American sovereignty since the 1960s, a role she played both as a critic of the ...

Ada Deer, the former United States assistant secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs and Native American leader in Wisconsin, has died at age 88.

Ada Deer, the former United States assistant secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs and Native American leader in Wisconsin, has died at age 88.

MADISON, Wis. — Ada Deer, an esteemed Native American leader from Wisconsin and the first woman to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs, has died at age 88.

A look at Deer's lifetime of accomplishments. Deer was the first Native American woman to run for Congress in Wisconsin, in 1978 and 1992. She became the first woman to head the Bureau of Indian ...

FILE - Ada Deer meets reporters at the Interior Department in Washington, Sept. 7, 1995. Deer, an esteemed Native American leader from Wisconsin, died from natural causes at age 88 on Aug. 15, 2023.