native americans
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PublishedOctober 25, 2024
‘I formally apologize’: Biden condemns U.S. Indian boarding schools
President Biden apologized to Native Americans on Friday for the U.S. government’s role in taking Native children from their families and cultures.
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PublishedOctober 24, 2024
Biden set to apologize to Native Americans for boarding schools, becoming first president to do so
The remarks would be the first time a U.S. president apologized for the atrocities suffered by tens of thousands of Native children who were forced to attend boarding schools over several generations. From 1819 to 1969, the government managed or paid churches and religious groups to run more than 400 federal Indian boarding schools across 37 states.
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PublishedOctober 4, 2024
Makers of Civilization 7 work with Shawnee to bring sincere representation of the tribe
The chief of the Shawnee Tribe grew up playing video games, including hundreds of hours colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.
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PublishedJuly 19, 2024
How boot camps are helping to address historic gap in internet access on America’s tribal lands
Broadband expansion has gotten a major boost from the Biden administration, which has invested $65 billion to develop internet infrastructure in places that need it.
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PublishedJune 28, 2024
Yellowstone officials: Rare white buffalo sacred to Native Americans not seen since June 4 birth
Suspicion about the fate of the calf has grown as weeks have passed without another sighting since it was born in the Lamar Valley, a prime spot for wildlife viewing in Yellowstone.
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PublishedJune 23, 2024
Father Sebastian Rale may have been Maine’s first vegetarian
The controversial 18th-century Jesuit priest could well have been an ascetic, part of a Christian movement that abstained from meat, which its adherents associated with carnality, gluttony and lechery.
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PublishedJune 14, 2024
U.S. Catholic bishops approve outreach to Native Americans, acknowledge boarding school traumas
New guidelines outlining outreach to Native American Catholics was completed as details emerge of decades of widespread abuses inflicted on Native children at Catholic boarding schools.
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PublishedMay 5, 2024
As U.S. spotlights those missing or dead in Native communities, prosecutors work to solve their cases
From marches and art exhibitions to candlelight vigils, people are gathering across the U.S. to spotlight the high rate of disappearances and killings in Native American communities
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PublishedApril 9, 2024
Environmental group to host salmon documentary screening in Brunswick
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2024
Tribes in Washington are battling a devastating opioid crisis. Will a multimillion-dollar bill help?
A bill before the Washington Legislature would bring more state funding to tribes like Lummi that are trying to keep opioids from taking the next generation too.
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