In previous years, Northern Quest Resort and Casino’s Native American Heritage Month primarily focused on a dance championship which brought dancers from a variety of tribes to the casino to compete ...
For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United States government and Christian denominations operated boarding schools ...
Carlisle Indian Industrial School amid genocidal warfare as the U.S. government seized land for white settlers.
The festivities kicked off with an Indigenous fashion show featuring members of the Fond du Lac Band wearing clothing ...
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), signed in 1990, mandates this process. Mercyhurst University, among others, is actively working to repatriate remains and artifacts ...
Sins are powerful – and for many – lucrative. Native American Tribes understand their economic strength For many Native American tribes, economic self-sufficiency has long been a priority. In the ...
The exhumation of 17 students from Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian Industrial School has renewed attention on the US boarding school system, where Indigenous children were forcibly assimilated. Over ...