Native Americans

A towering mountain southwest of Denver has been renamed in honor of Colorado’s Indigenous people.

Amid a renewed push for answers, archeologists resume digging for student remains at the site of a former Native American boarding school.

Dozens of bison from a mountain park outside Denver were transferred Wednesday to several tribes from across the Great Plains

The U.S. Department of the Interior has renamed five places in California, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas that previously included a racist term for a Native American woman.

The law creates an export certification system that would help clarify whether items were created as art and provides a path for the voluntary return of items that are part of a tribe’s cultural heritage.

When staff at the University of North Dakota went searching for a missing pipe and other items, they were unprepared for what they found, more than 70 human remains.

In recent years, tribal and Indigenous communities have faced upheaval dealing with changing sea levels as well as an increase in floods and wildfires.

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.