Native leaders say a Congressional proposal to increase credit hour requirements and reduce the maximum amounts of Pell ...

RAPID CITY, SD – Standing tall at the site of a former boarding school is a roughly seven foot tall statue of a Lakota family, memorializing survivors and victims of the over 100 year federal boarding ...

This story was originally published by The Imprint.. Nancy Marie Spears The Imprint. A guiding principle of state and federal laws governing child abuse and neglect cases is that foster homes must be ...

It was the last night of February and a 4×4 truck vaulted down the 103-mile winter road to Cat Lake First Nation in northern Ontario, a road made entirely of ice and snow. Only the light of the stars ...

After decades of work toward federal recognition with Congresswoman Gluesenkamp Perez and surrounding tribes, the Chinook Indian Nation is calling on new legislative allies, following an amendment ...

Credit: Jeff Jackson, Tlingit of the Kaach.ádi Clan from Kake, and Chris Pata, adopted into the Shangukeidí Clan of Juneau, prepare to set a tree into the waters of the Kasiana Islands in Sitka Sound ...

Pauly Denetclaw ICT. Bill Tripp, Karuk, has been a cultural fire practitioner nearly his entire life. He remembers being four years old, cracking acorns as he waited for his great-grandmother to wake ...

Mary Annette Pember ICT. The sight of a room full of human cadavers can be off-putting for some, but not for Haley Omeasoo. In fact, Omeasoo’s comfort level and lack of squeamishness convinced her to ...

Later this spring, barges of heavy equipment will pull away from a launch on Alaska’s road system and begin a journey up the Yukon River. More than 100 miles upstream, a tributary, Birch Creek, ...

Allison Herrera MPR News. Two Martin County foster parents are getting another audience in front of the Minnesota Supreme Court Tuesday, after arguing last fall that a nearly 50-year-old law that ...

TRIGGER WARNING: This story mentions suicide among young American Indians and Alaska Natives. Amanda Hernández Stateline Firearm-related deaths among children and teenagers in the United States have ...

Taylar Dawn Stagner This story was produced by Grist and co-published with ICT. Mining — whether for fossil fuels or, increasingly, the critical minerals in high demand today — has a long history of ...