SIOUX CITY, Iowa – As a cold wind bit deep into their coats and hats, more than 100 people walked a winding gravel road down a gently sloping hill. Children scurried around the ribbon skirts of ...

On June 15, tribes across California and the nation will mark the second annual ICWA Day, a moment to celebrate the historic 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision that overwhelmingly affirmed the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) (Photo/File) U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, has ...

Native American children remain overrepresented in the South Dakota foster care system, accounting for 72.5% of the foster care population at the end of fiscal year 2024, according to new data. That’s ...

In the 11th hour of his presidency, Joe Biden signed the Native American Child Protection Act into law, consolidating resources for tribes and reauthorizing grant funding for the nation’s “most ...

The Alaska Native Heritage Center's new exhibit on the impact of government and religious boarding schools is part of a series that will also look at the education of Native children before and after ...

Yet the gaps have continually worsened. Data from the nonprofit Sentencing Project and the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention from 2019-23, the most recent available, shows ...

For the past 30 years, it’s been clear: Native American children in Washington state are far more likely to be arrested and jailed than white kids. The state’s courts and Washington Department of ...

Yet the gaps have continually worsened. Data from the nonprofit Sentencing Project and the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention from 2019-23, the most recent available, shows ...