I grew up in a little Norwegian fishing community that was absorbed into Seattle proper. Just about every family that wasn’t pure Norwegian liked to boast about having an Indian princess in their ...

India's population is genetically one of the most diverse in the world, yet it remains underrepresented in global datasets. In a study publishing in the Cell Press journal Cell, researchers analyzed ...

Learn how census records can reveal surprising details about your ancestry at Hayes Library’s genealogy workshop on Nov. 16.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has released the results of a DNA analysis showing she has distant Native American ancestry, which could pre-empt further questions and attacks should she run for president in ...

I had never heard the term “pretendian” until The Star’s story about three KU professors who have come under fire for claiming Native American ancestry. There was a time when I was a pretendian, even ...

University of Kansas associate professor Kent Blansett’s contributions to the Native American community aren’t in question. Blansett was hired in 2020 through KU’s Langston Hughes professorship, a ...

University of Kansas professors Jay T. Johnson, Kent Blansett and Raymond Pierotti are accused by some of faking their Native American ancestry. But others say it’s more complicated than that. The ...