helped organize a 1905 movement to create a Native American-governed U.S. state called Sequoyah. Oklahoma’s name is derived from a Choctaw term for “red people,” yet its nickname—the ...

A leading voice for Native Americans statewide over several decades, he was a founding member and President of the Southern California Tribal Chairman’s Association, also serving on the ...

Several Native American tribes have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to order the United States to release documentation of the brutal boarding school system that included one such ...

Two tribal nations filed a lawsuit Thursday saying that the federal government used the trust fund money of tribes to pay for boarding schools where generations of Native children were ...

“It took off like wildfire here,” says Mullan. “A lot of Irish people know the story now, and here were Native American people who needed our help.” Larry Mullen Jr., drummer for the Irish ...

In 2022, the U.S. Department of the Interior, under the direction of Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to run the agency, released a scathing report on the legacy of the boarding ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul formally apologized Tuesday for the “atrocities” she says were committed at an Irving boarding school where Native American youths were forcibly separated from their families ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) issued the first apology from a sitting governor to the Seneca Nation for a boarding school’s treatment of Native Americans. Hochul was in Irving, New York, near the ...

Today is Wednesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2025. There are 224 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 21, 1881, the American Red Cross was founded by nurse and educator Clara Barton in ...