Guest Opinion. Education has always been sacred to the Cherokee people. Investing in education was one of the first and highest priorities for Cherokee Nation after the Trail of Tears. Despite the ...
PRAIRIE ISLAND INDIAN COMMUNITY, Minn. — Some Native Americans traditionally bestow bald eagle feathers at ceremonies to mark achievements, such as graduations, and as a form of reverence for the bird ...
Steve Cadue, Kickapoo elder and past tribal chair, speaks during a ceremony for Native American Student Services graduates on May 17, 2023. In the first-ever ceremony of its kind for the Lawrence ...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — America’s golden eagles face a rising threat from a black market for their feathers used in Native American powwows and other ceremonies, according to wildlife officials, ...
In 1937, Phoenix was a small city isolated in the middle of the Arizona desert with a population of less than 50,000 people who, like the rest of the nation, were struggling to recover from the Great ...
A high school has come under fire after a Native American student was forced to remove a sacred item from her graduation cap. In a TikTok, content creator and activist LakotaWiyanGrace argued that the ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed bills focused on issues ranging from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People crisis to banning the use of Native American slurs in athletic teams and mascots at K-12 ...