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The Genoa Indian Industrial School was one of the largest Indian boarding schools, drawing students from 40 tribal nations for half a century.
Native America Calling: Erasing tribes in South Dakota schools (April 18, 2023)
Tribal nations are opposing new South Dakota social studies standards that exclude them from history in the state. 
Forty years of federal recognition and the Narragansett people are still fighting for what’s rightfully ours.
Native America Calling: Assessing McGirt v. Oklahoma (April 12, 2023)
After removal from their home and an arduous and deadly forced march, the Muscogee Nation arrived in Oklahoma with little more than a promise that they could revive and rebuild. 
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation works to protect our artists (April 10, 2023)
For too many generations, citizens of tribal nations around the country, including Cherokee Nation citizens, saw their language, their culture and their artistic expression suppressed and eroded by policies of the United States. 
Montana Free Press: Bill for Indigenous People’s Day gains support (February 13, 2023)
“I want a day that acknowledges the rich cultural heritage of all Indigenous people in our state,” said Montana Sen. Shane Morigeau, a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. 
An overwhelming majority of Jewish voters in New York’s 3rd Congressional District – 94% – think their freshman Republican representative, George Santos, should resign from Congress over a web of lies about his background.
Forward: Republican enters Congress under extreme scrutiny (January 3, 2023)
A Republican candidate’s lies about his education, employment and even his ethnic background take him all the way to the U.S. Congress. 
Native America Calling: Native forensics: the science of justice (December 6, 2022)
Crimes involving Native people and renewed scrutiny of past boarding school practices highlight the importance of Native forensic professionals. 
Harold Frazier: Nation-to-nation policy must be law of the land (November 30, 2022)
Native Sovereign Nations are prior sovereigns, embodying the inalienable and inherent rights of Native Peoples bestowed by our Creator. 
Native Sun News Today: Wounded Knee descendants left out of repatriation process (November 28, 2022)
The descendants of Chief Spotted Elk, a Lakota leader who was murdered at Wounded Knee in 1890, are speaking out. 
Albert Bender: Genocide of Indian nations at the U.S. Supreme Court (November 28, 2022)
A case before the United States Supreme Court could resume the genocide of tribal nations. 
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation keeps our language alive (November 21, 2022)
Cherokee language is core to our culture and our identity as a distinct people. 
Tribal youth get a taste of food sovereignty at White House gathering (November 15, 2022)
Dozens of young Native people flocked to the nation’s capital for the return of the White House Tribal Youth Forum, where they saw food sovereignty in action. 
The Cherokee Nation is getting closer to fulfilling a promise made by treaty nearly two centuries ago.
Underscore.News: Young Native runner honors family legacy (November 3, 2022)
Ku Stevens’ great-grandfather escaped an Indian boarding school by running 50 miles through the desert to get home. Decades later, Ku runs to honor that legacy. 
Many Canadians are coming to terms with the nation’s history of schooling and settler colonialism.
Secretary Deb Haaland provides update from Department of the Interior (September 27, 2022)
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland provides an update at the 39th Annual National Tribal Health Conference. 
Cronkite News: Indian boarding schools confront genocidal legacy (August 30, 2022)
Few dispute that Indian boarding schools led to more than a century of abuse, systematically seizing Indigenous land, separating children from their families, destroying communities and working to erase tribal languages, religions, cultures and economies. 
‘We just need to be safe’: Monkeypox vaccine rolls out in Indian Country (August 23, 2022)
The Navajo Nation is receiving its first doses of the Monkeypox vaccine as experts and providers in Indian Country respond to the latest public health threat. 
Mother Jones: ‘We’ve been under these genocidal policies for 500 years’ (August 15, 2022)
Federal and state abortion restrictions have been interfering with tribal sovereignty for years. 
Charges laid against Native woman reported as missing in Canada (August 8, 2022)
Dawn Walker has been accused of faking her disappearance and that of her child in a case that attracted widespread attention in Canada. 
No Native entity knows the answers and to truly heal we need our children returned to our homes.
Montana Free Press: Film explores ‘Lost Bird’ who found her way home (August 4, 2022)
A new documentary applies a wide-angle lens to a personal story of adoption and assimilation of an Indian child. 
Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church, delivers remarks at Maskwacis Park in Alberta, Canada.
Religious communities, bishops and popes were variously complicit in a system that dispossessed Indigenous peoples and cruelly oppressed their children at Native residential schools.
ICT: The legacy of Tim Giago (July 25, 2022)
The founder of modern Indian journalism has passed on. Tim Giago was 88 years old. 
One of the intents of the Canadian and U.S. governments in creating the boarding-residential schools was to alienate indigenous people from their ancestral lands.
Nothing will be done for us without us. No one may speak on our behalf without our express approval.
After more than a century, Native sports legend Jim Thorpe has once again been recognized for his Olympic achievements.
There must be recompense for the horrendous crime of genocide and its long term effects.
Biden administration backs Indian boarding school bill (June 27, 2022)
The Biden administration is fully supporting a bipartisan bill to study the Indian boarding school era, Secretary Deb Haaland said at a hearing on Capitol Hill. 
The House Committee on Natural Resources meets for a markup on June 15, 2022.
Democrats are vowing to return to work better prepared after they said Republicans “hijacked” a slew of Indian Country bills during a markup where nothing was accomplished.
Bipartisan efforts to create a federal commission to explore and repair the legacy of the nation’s notorious Indian boarding schools have hit a stumbling block over subpoena authority.
Native America Calling: Federal boarding schools: now what? (May 18, 2022)
How much confidence should Indian Country put into the federal government’s role in mitigating the trauma of the boarding school era? 
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States holds a legislative hearing on H.R.5444, the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act.
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States holds a legislative hearing on H.R.5444, the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act.
“I didn’t know anything about who I was, as a Native person,” James William LaBelle, Sr. said as a survivor of an Indian boarding school.
“This report confirms that this boarding school system was part of a twin United States policy: the dispossession of Indian lands and the forced assimilation of Indian people,” said Assistant Secretary Bryan Newland.
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