A group focused on shedding more light on the troubled legacy of boarding schools where Indigenous children were stripped of their culture and language as part of assimilation efforts released a new ...

President Biden became the first president to officially recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day in 2021, and did so again this year. It falls on the same day as Columbus Day, which was established by ...

Two tribes are in federal court this week, trying to prove to a judge that North Dakota's legislative district map dilutes Native American voters' strength on their reservations. A trial began Monday ...

A trial has been set in a federal lawsuit brought by two Native American tribes that allege North Dakota’s new legislative map dilutes tribal members’ voting strength. The bench trial is scheduled for ...

A map, now called racist by some, earned the support of Native American lawmakers, the praise of a tribal chairman, and resulted in the election of two Native American women to the Legislature. Former ...

Unless North Dakota lawmakers get an 11th-hour reprieve, they will miss the deadline to redraw a legislative map that, according to a federal judge, violated the rights of Native American voters. The ...

Maps hold power. For millennia, the borders and place names represented on world maps signify who claims or possesses control of a geographic region. Through colonization, violent conquest or ...

The Alzheimer’s Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have unveiled today the second edition of the Healthy Brain Initiative: Road Map for American Indian and Alaska ...

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The game that's now known as lacrosse was a powerful and healing tradition in many Native American communities. It had largely disappeared but an effort to bring the game back has taken root.

Acknowledging Indigenous survivance is a start, but there's a critical need to turn recognition into tangible action.

The Detroit Institute of Arts has long been known for the strength of its Native American collection, yet the museum functioned without a Native American curator for more than a decade and it has been ...