Native Americans

Harvard University still has the remains of at least 19 people who were likely enslaved and nearly 7,000 Native Americans, according to the school’s newspaper.

Many families in the U.S. suffered intergenerational trauma from Indigenous boarding schools, says Deborah Parker, CEO of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. She wants Congress to pass a bill that would establish a Truth and Healing Commission to review the boarding schools’ impacts on Native Americans.

A new Interior Department report underscores how closely the U.S. government collaborated with churches in operating boarding schools for Indigenous children. The federal government saw churches as useful in Christianizing Native children as part of a project to sever them from their culture, their identities and ultimately their land. The role of churches forms part of the Federal Indian Boarding...

The U.S. government has not been open to investigating its role in stripping Native Americans of their cultures and identities in boarding schools.

Officials at Walt Disney World say a performance by a visiting Texas high school drill team that used American Indian stereotypes, including chants of “scalp them,” doesn’t reflect the resort’s values

Since the 1960s, activists have called for sports teams to stop using Native Americans as mascots. The movement’s first wins happened on college campuses such as the University of Oklahoma, Dartmouth University, and Stanford University. In this digital original, we explore the long fight to change the mascot and name of Washington’s football team.

A conservation group is turning over a historic redwood grove on the Northern California coast to descendants of the original Native American inhabitants

Abby Roque is an American ice hockey forward who made history at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Get to know more about her journey to Beijing.

The U.S. used to be a global leader in lithium production, but now has fallen way behind. Several domestic projects are in the works, but will it be enough?

As the pandemic ravaged the country, deaths from drug overdoses surged by nearly 30%, surpassing 100,000 dead for the first time in American history.

A professor and students at University of Mary Washington are working to spotlight two local Native American tribes with a new trail in King George County, Virginia.

A new generation of Indigenous artists is decolonizing the status quo.

Members of Native American tribes from around New England are gathering in the seaside town where the Pilgrims settled — not to give thanks but to mourn

Here are some ways to celebrate National Native American Heritage Month in Washington, D.C., and online.

Dozens of works from Native American filmmakers are online for the 21st annual Native Cinema Showcase, sponsored by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Native American Heritage Month celebrates the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans, including their impact on sports such as baseball.

In honor of Veterans Day, NBCLX explores what motivates Native Americans to serve in the military, their contributions to the U.S. armed forces and the challenges they face when they get out.

As the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence in the late 1800s. But another part of his legacy has received renewed attention amid the nation’s reckoning with racial justice: his role in shaping the nation’s hardline policies toward Native Americans as a former head of the U.S....

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says extensive news media coverage of the death of Gabby Petito should be a reminder of hundreds of Native American girls and women who are missing or murdered in the United States.

Connecticut and a handful of other states have recently decided to mandate students be taught about Native American culture and history