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Sexual harassment, parties with former students and unusual living and salary arrangements are at the center of a stunning investigation at the St. Stephens Indian School.
Tim Giago: I don’t want to hear ‘sorry’ from the Catholic Church (April 11, 2022)
Christian churches destroyed the lives of more Lakota boys and girls than they will ever know. 
Native America Calling: The papal apology (April 7, 2022)
The apology from Pope Francis sought forgiveness for the role the Catholic Church played in atrocities at Native residential schools. 
Tens of thousands of Native children suffered abuse at residential schools run by the Catholic Church, all with the compliance of the Canadian government.
Native America Calling: The continuing Russian influence in Alaska (March 16, 2022)
As Russia works to forcibly annex a neighboring country, it’s instructive to recount the nation’s checkered history among Alaska Natives. 
Navajo Nation leader launches Republican bid for Congress (March 2, 2022)
Myron Lizer, the often controversial vice president of the Navajo Nation who recently declared his ‘love’ for Donald Trump, is running for U.S. Congress. 
Navajo Nation leader welcomes anti-COVID convoy to reservation (February 25, 2022)
The vice president of the Navajo Nation is aligning himself with the so-called “People’s Convoy,” a group of truckers that opposes COVID-19 safeguards. 
People’s World: LandBack movement gathers momentum around the globe (January 27, 2022)
As the political landscape changes, the LandBack movement gathers momentum as never before. 
Leaders in the largest city in New Mexico are convening a series of “community conversations” to address the harmful legacy of the Indian boarding school era.
Tim Giago: ‘I will never forgive them for what they did to us’ (January 4, 2022)
The unholy impact of Indian boarding schools left its mark to the detriment of thousands of Native children.
Native America Calling: The full picture of California’s missions (December 28, 2021)
Slavery, abuse, disease and massacres cut the Native population to a fifth of what it was during the Indian mission period in California. 
Oak Flat, a sacred Apache place in Arizona, faces desecration from a large copper mine.
Cronkite News: Supreme Court takes up contentious abortion rights case (December 2, 2021)
Protesters rallied outside the Supreme Court as the justices considered a strict Mississippi law that could lead to the reversal of longstanding abortion rights precedents. 
Native America Calling: Huy: helping Indigenous prison inmates (November 8, 2021)
A program in Washington State works to protect the legal rights of Native inmates in prison. 
Native America Calling: Catholic reconciliation in Canada? (November 4, 2021)
Pope Francis is scheduled to meet with an Indigenous delegation when he visits Canada in December.
Native Sun News Editorial: Compensate survivors of Indian boarding schools (November 1, 2021)
The only thing the government and the churches really understand is money. 
Tim Giago: Reminding myself of the good people at boarding school (October 26, 2021)
I often write about the Holy Rosary Mission Boarding School and most often I only write about the bad things. 
‘It’s who we are’: Apache people take fight for sacred site to federal court (October 20, 2021)
The Biden administration is facing a major test of its commitment to sacred sites as citizens of the San Carlos Apache Tribe head to court to protect one of their most important places. 
True peace will come about when Native residential school children, now buried, arise and are returned to the embrace of their ancestors in their home territories.
Tim Giago: The dark legacy of the boarding schools (September 21, 2021)
Indian boarding schools had a dramatic impact upon the lives of thousands of Native children. 
By 1900, 20,000 children were in Indian boarding schools. By 1925, that number had more than tripled, according to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.
Religious-based boarding schools are an enduring symbol of forced assimilation of Native children in the United States and Canada.
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation acquires boarding school site (June 30, 2021)
The history of Native boarding schools in this country is complicated and includes many tragic abuses that must be investigated in depth. 
I learned that it was not good to be an “Indian.” We were supposed to forget our language and culture.
Tim Giago: Traditional belief in the age of Christianity (June 17, 2021)
Why did so many tribal people give up their centuries old beliefs and convert to a foreign religion? 
Give us back our lands so that we might be restored to the embrace of the earth.
Leonard Crow Dog was a powerful Wicasa Wakan, Holy Man, with a beautiful vision of the Sacred Mystery of the Universe.
Palestinian people are native and have a right to live freely upon their ancestral lands.
Denying our spiritual practices for more than 100 years has impacted generations of Indian people.
The Sikh Coalition and the San Carlos Apache Tribe would not appear to have much in common at first glance, but they have found a shared interest in protecting sacred land.
“These are things that are absolutely essential to our identity and to our spiritual health,” National Congress of American Indians President Fawn Sharp said in seeking permanent protections for Oak Flat.
Tim Giago: A wacipi that hid many secrets (May 3, 2021)
Every Lakota knows where we have been and now we are struggling to find out where we are going. 
Detached from reality. That’s the way a federal judge has described a Donald Trump supporter who took part in the violent riot in the nation’s capital.
Ivan Star Comes Out: Our ancestral teachings belong to our youth (March 15, 2021)
Being born in a time when Lakota was spoken by nearly everyone around me allowed me to become fluent within 6 years. 
“I do this memorial in the Lakota way for my husband,” says Lula Red Cloud.
Tim Giago: Racist law harms survivors of Indian boarding schools (March 8, 2021)
I am a survivor of the Holy Rosary Indian Mission Boarding School. I do not want to be honored. 
The Biden administration put the brakes on massive copper mine at a sacred Apache site, reversing course after the project was on the verge of final approval.
Cronkite News: Judge won’t stop copper mine on sacred Apache site (February 15, 2021)
A federal judge is refusing to halt to the proposed Resolution Copper Mine at Oak Flat in Arizona, on land sacred to the Apache people. 
Pine Ridge Reservation signs defaced with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti (February 3, 2021)
The leader of the Oglala Sioux Tribe is condemning racially charged vandalism of two welcome signs on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
One of the most recognizable defendants from the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is a Donald Trump supporter who bases his persona on a warped interpretation of Native traditions.
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