The Latest Breaking News from Native American

Congress' official watchdog says in a report that the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump toppled untold numbers of saguaro cactuses in Arizona, put endangered ocelots at risk in Texas and disturbed Native American burial grounds

“There There” is Tommy Orange’s first novel. It follows 12 characters who are all headed to a powwow at the Oakland Coliseum in California. It is the first novel about the urban Native American chosen by the Chicago Public Library for One Book, One Chicago.

A state commission has begun designing a new state flag and seal for Minnesota

Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the U.S. failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago

Police in New Mexico’s capital city are investigating the partial destruction of a public monument to 19th century frontiersman Christopher “Kit” Carson

The list of boarding schools in the United States that once sought to “civilize” Native Americans, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians is getting longer

A landmark court ruling in 2018 determined New Mexico wasn’t meeting its responsibilities when it came to providing an adequate education to Native American students and many others, but tribal leaders say change has been slow

Andrea Smith, an ethnic studies scholar at a California university, had faced decades of criticism for claiming Cherokee heritage

A federal judge has approved an updated Great Lakes fishing agreement between four Native American tribes and government agencies

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition says it will digitize 20,000 archival pages related to Quaker-operated Indian boarding schools

Hundreds of Native Americans have been recruited to addiction treatment centers in Phoenix from states as far away as Montana in a widespread billing scheme that mostly targeted Medicaid’s American Indian Health Program