A Long Island school district may get to keep a shortened version of its “Thunderbirds” team name that New York State seemed poised to shoot down under its Native American logo ban.

The Shinnecock Indian Nation said Wednesday that it is open to allowing the Wyandanch School District to keep its Warriors team name if it removes its Native American imagery, but officials at the ...

According to protesters, golfers are playing across an ancestral burial ground during the U.S. Open run by the United States Golf Association. The Shinnecock Nation has a complicated relationship ...

For thousands of years, the Shinnecock people worked with seaweed. But this effort, in its third year, combines tribal history with a calling to answer a modern dilemma: Bay waters are dying ...

The Shinnecock Indian Nation views a casino on its reservation as a path out of poverty, but some wealthy neighbors are up in arms.

I was living in New York City, and Shinnecock Hills was hosting the U.S. Open. The plan was to spend a June weekend on Long Island and take in a major I had never attended at one of the most ...

Amid the jubilation, there were clear streaks of defiance in the Shinnecock Indian Nation’s response to their landmark federal recognition Tuesday morning. For a tribe steeped in centuries of ...

But Shinnecock has been particularly revelatory for Dustin Johnson. Despite winning the U.S. Open at Oakmont, DJ is viewed by some as nothing but off-the-tee octane.

After two decades of attempts, the Shinnecock Indian Nation now says it can go ahead with its plans to build a casino in Southampton.

The flag of the Shinnecock Indian Nation will fly in the halls of the Suffolk County Legislature after a formal presentation Tuesday welcoming the tribe in its new federally recognized status. The ...