On Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American Saint, and six others in front of some 80,000 people at Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City. These kinds of ...

Oct. 21 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1805, in one of history's greatest naval battles, the British fleet under Adm. Horatio Nelson defeated the combined French-Spanish fleet at Trafalgar off ...

Kateri Tekakwitha was named the first Native American saint today by Pope Benedict XVI in a ceremony held in St. Peter’s Square. Some 80,000 people came to the open-air ceremony as the 17th century ...

Some traditional Mohawks are treating the naming of the nation's first Native American saint with skepticism and fear that the Roman Catholic Church is using it to shore up its image and marginalize ...

Charles and Jolene Roy, of Chicago, and their 8-year old daughter, Amber, are heading to Rome for the canonization. The jingle of amber's Native American dress symbolizes this journey of culture and ...

TIME asked 11 experts on indigenous history which Native American historymakers readers should know about. Their responses have been lightly edited. In 1889, Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte graduated top ...